Testimony of Healing September 23, 1933 Issue

I have seen many beautiful answers to prayer as taught...

Bitha Cassatt Martz

I have seen many beautiful answers to prayer as taught in Christian Science. The following healing was accomplished in the midst of a medical atmosphere which was very hostile to this Science.

I had been healed many times through the application of Christian Science, where formerly medicine had been used, but a new physical discord appeared which called for surgery. The statement on page 402 of Science and Health that "surgery is the branch of its [Christian Science] healing which will be last acknowledged," had left me with an impression—erroneous, of course—that mental surgery was not yet available. I had no desire for medical aid even if I could have been helped by it—which I could not, as I had heard my husband, a surgeon, state that the condition was practically incurable. It was an internal rupture which had gradually made me unable to walk, and finally had affected my heart.

For three days I sat in my chair and kept myself from passing on only by thinking and repeating the truth that God is my Life. I was praying as I had been taught in Christian Science, and I expected and waited for the answer. At the end of the third day a friend came. She had been hundreds of miles away and was traveling in another direction when she had decided to come to see me—knowing nothing, of course, of my condition. She brought me the news that she herself had been healed of this same trouble by Christian Science treatment, when eminent surgeons had told her that she could never be well again. She told me that the truth which had healed her had come in the familiar words in the Bible, "For in him [God] we live, and move, and have our being." As I thought of this same passage continually, the recognition of life as outside of the body, and harmonious, became clear.

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