Testimony of Healing April 8, 1933 Issue

Words can never express the gratitude I feel toward my...

Maurine Samson Grantham

Words can never express the gratitude I feel toward my dear mother for presenting Christian Science to me in an hour of need. Since that first day I have not doubted that it would answer all my questions and give me a solution for my problems, and so it has.

Immediately after beginning the study of this Sceicne I was healed of chronic headaches from which I had suffered since childhood. I was also healed of seasickness and was able to make an ocean voyage with no thought of this trouble, whereas previously the least motion on a river steamer made me ill. I have since crossed both the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean a number of times and have experienced bad storms, and the healing has been permanent. Also, I am being healed gradually of unpleasant traits of disposition.

Besides these and other healings, I am very grateful for a sense of protection and freedom from fear that has made it possible for me to go ahead in confidence, when to others it seemed I was walking into conditions fraught with danger and uncertainty. One of these experiences took place in the autumn of 1924, when my mother and I were in Peiping, China. Civil war was rife, and on account of fighting in the vicinity of the railroad, no trains were being run to or from Tientsin, which is Peiping's only outlet to the sea. During this time it seemed advisable that my mother return to the United States, and we accordingly made a steamer reservation. When this became known, much surprise was expressed that we should make any plans in view of the political situation and the impossibility of getting out of Peiping. We met these remarks with expressions of hope of being able to do what seemed necessary, and quietly knew that nothing could interfere with our going if it was right for us to do so. The situation remained unchanged, even until the morning of the day it was necessary for us to leave Peiping, but about noon I overheard someone in the lobby of our hotel say that he had heard there was to be a special train to Tientsin that afternoon which was being sent through by the combined legation officials. I at once went to the American Legation, found this to be true, and obtained passes for my mother and myself. At seven o'clock that evening we left Peiping on an internationally guarded train, with the British and American flags and flags of other nations draped over the engine to give right of way through the zone where the fighting was taking place. The journey was made with a great sense of joy on our part, and while it took twelve hours instead of the usual four, and some of the flags were torn by bullets, no one was injured; and there was plenty of time for us to catch the steamer. This was the first train that had left Peiping in about three weeks. To us it was another proof of one's ability to do what is right through knowing that divine Love does meet all our needs, and not placing reliance on material sense testimony and human reasoning.

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