Testimony of Healing January 23, 1932 Issue

It is with deepest gratitude to God and to Christian Science...

Carrie E. Curry

It is with deepest gratitude to God and to Christian Science that I give this testimony. Before taking up the study of Christian Science I was in training for medical nursing. Less than a year was needed to complete my course when I was forced to leave training, under a doctor's orders, and was told that I was physically unfit to continue. There followed almost two years of struggle with the fear of pulmonary tuberculosis, and a constantly draining sinus, due to a bone infection. I spent weeks taking the so-called rest cure at my own home and at a sanitarium. Then, in the hope that a change of climate would be beneficial, I went to Colorado. After I had been there four months under medical treatment, the sinus was still draining, and my general physical condition was little improved.

At this time a friend called my attention to Christian Science. I knew very little about it and had listened only to adverse, erroneous criticisms, so that the wrong ideas I had of it, together with the thoughts I held of medical science, made me very skeptical. But I was in need, and this need outweighed my doubts. I began the study of Christian Science in July, 1922; and by the following September, with the loving help of a practitioner, I was healed. In October of the same year I was able to begin clerical work in an office. I am indeed grateful for this healing and for the assurance it brought to me of God's unfailing care. Since that time I have turned to Christian Science for help many times, and have found that it does not fail. Suggestions of fear have sometimes come into my thought, but they have been overcome through the knowledge of God's loving, constant protection. I am very grateful that medical theories and suggestions no longer hold my thought, and that I can now honestly say I am not afraid. I know that in the certain knowledge of Truth I am free.

I have been healed of a sense of bitter disappointment and loneliness that seemed almost more than I could bear. In searching for understanding to meet daily problems, I am learning to discard much error of thinking, especially self-depreciation and sensitiveness, and to replace these with confidence and trust in our Father-Mother God, knowing that as I increasingly trust in Him my every need will be met.

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