Testimony of Healing February 24, 1934 Issue

When I receive my literature I always read the testimonies...

Lula Ferrell

When I receive my literature I always read the testimonies first, and I am so often benefited that I want to send in the account of a healing I had recently, hoping someone may be helped by reading it. I have had many healings in Christian Science, both physical and financial, and have gained much contentment from it.

While I was visiting in a very small place where the population is entirely Spanish, with the exception of my friends, who are Christian Scientists, one of my fingers was bitten by a fly which is considered poisonous. I did not do my mental work as I should have done, and was awakened in the night by itching and pain. The finger was so swollen that I could not bend it, and I felt sick. Knowing that I had to bring my thoughts into conformity with Truth, I called my friend and asked her to light the lamp so that I could read the Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly. I read and worked for some time and then went to sleep, feeling refreshed; but in the morning the finger was no better. My husband came for me in a motor car, and I wrapped the finger so that he could not see that it was swollen and infected. That night I went to my room early, very much frightened, mortal mind telling me that the inflammation was spreading up my arm, and that if my husband knew it I should have to go to a doctor, who might amputate the arm.

For many years I had been a Christian Scientist, but had just taken my stand for Science where I am now living by planning to have services in my home the following Sunday. I was a thousand miles by boat from a practitioner, and was so sick that I did not have much resistance left. I talked to God; I cried out to Him that He would not leave me helpless. This verse of Scripture came to me: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." I also declared over and over what Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 393): "Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor inflammation." I went to sleep again with the condition spreading on my hand, but in my fretful sleep I still clung to the thought quoted above. Suddenly I saw clearly that that finger could do nothing but what I accepted in my thinking; that matter is helpless to manifest anything without mortal mind to prompt it, and that there is no mortal mind because God is the only Mind. He made no such condition, does not know evil, and as He is All and made all, man as His reflection certainly has only what is Godlike, and can know only harmony, health, joy, peace, and good. With the fear quieted the healing began. I again went to sleep and woke often, meeting every suggestion of error with the truth; and the next morning my finger was much better, the condition had not spread, and I could use my hand a little. All day I continued displacing erroneous thoughts with the truth, and a feeling of peace and gratitude came over me. I had never before seen so clearly how one's body could be held in subjection; that disease could not of itself spread and move around; and it did not, for by night the finger was healed, although still discolored. It was a week before the redness disappeared, but there was no pain or inflammation. I read at the Christian Science services in my home as planned. At the time I never thought I should be grateful for the opportunity to make that demonstration, but I am, for now, seeing its nothingness, I can speak to disease with so much more authority than before.

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