Testimony of Healing August 27, 1932 Issue

It is both a duty and a privilege to send this word of...

Esther Harding Young

It is both a duty and a privilege to send this word of testimony to the innumerable blessings which Christian Science is constantly showering upon me. One of the things for which I am most grateful is the unfailing love and patient work of our practitioners. I recently had occasion to realize the magnitude of this especial provision of Mrs. Eddy's, when the power of God was invoked by a consecrated practitioner to prove for me that "death hath no . . . dominion." The case was one of pneumonia with supposedly serious complications, so diagnosed by a physician who was called in for this purpose, to quiet the fear of relatives not interested in Christian Science. But this concession was made by me with the distinct understanding that the diagnosis was as far as the doctor would be permitted to go, and that no treatment but Christian Science should be given. I had already asked the help of a practitioner.

Shortly after the doctor's diagnosis I descended into "the valley of the shadow" and lingered there unconscious for several days. But finally, after lying in a coma for two days, through the faithful and unremitting work of the devoted practitioner I sank into a quiet sleep and commenced to improve from that moment.

Through this experience I came to realize the truth of what before had been to me more or less a meaningless phrase: "Trials are proofs of God's care," as Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 66). Since then the truth that my real being as a reflection of that Love is wholly apart from the material has seemed very much clearer to me than ever before; hence my gratitude for this testing time.

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