Testimony of Healing November 4, 1933 Issue

Ever since I first attended Sunday school I have been...

Ruth Monahan

Ever since I first attended Sunday school I have been very grateful for Christian Science. The truth I learned there has been tested and proved over and over again. It has lifted our family out of a great sense of lack, and inharmony resulting therefrom. Although we took up the study of Christian Science because it was the only religion which we could intelligently accept as logical and practical, we soon found that it heals, even as the Christ, Truth, did centuries ago. One of the outstanding proofs of the healing efficacy of Christian Science which we had during those days at the end of the war, when influenza seemed prevalent, was the healing of this disease in our family. Our entire family with the exception of one member had it at practically the same time, and although in two instances it appeared to be quite serious, with the faithful and effectual help of a practitioner it was overcome in a very short time.

As a child Christian Science appealed to me because of the sense of peace it brought. Even before I could understand it I knew it to be the truth; I never doubted this for one moment, and never in the years that have followed has it failed me or been found wanting. Unconsciously I suffered from what today is commonly called an inferiority complex, which is really fear and a false sense of self. Because Christian Science has taught me to rely on God at all times, I have learned not to run away from problems but to face them, knowing that the wisdom and intelligence needed for every occasion are always present and that we can give them expression. This false sense was seen for what it is—nothing but a lie which, if believed, would deprive me of my heritage, dominion.

One healing which I experienced has always been an inspiration to me because it showed me so clearly the nothingness of matter. For several years I had a wart on my hand, and although the truth was applied it did not yield. I gradually gave less and less thought to it. Finally, after several years, I noticed manifestations of this condition appearing in a number of places on both of my hands. At first a sense of fear presented itself, but immediately the truth came to me—that we cannot ignore error, no matter how small it may seem, and that we must, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 240 of Science and Health, "either by suffering or by Science, be convinced of the error that is to be overcome." I never once after that ignored this condition but every time I became aware of it I refused to accept it as true or a part of me. One day, not long after, my attention was again attracted to this condition, and I became so conscious of the truth that God, infinite good, is the only creator, and that matter has no intelligence to create anything, that this condition lost all semblance of reality for me and I completely forgot about it. A day or so later I noticed that the wart I had had on my hand for about three years had shrunk considerably in size, and I realized then that I had been healed even before the physical manifestation had disappeared. Within a week's time all trace of these warts had disappeared.

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