Testimony of Healing March 10, 1934 Issue

In reviewing my steps since coming into Christian Science,...

Martha M. Becker

In reviewing my steps since coming into Christian Science, I feel moved to express through the periodicals my gratitude for healing and protection received through the Christ, Truth, which leads us onward from sense to Soul.

Through the healing of a close friend who was apparently at death's door my attention was called to Christian Science. I turned whole-heartedly to it, as I was badly in need of both mental and physical healing. From childhood I was never strong, but a deep desire to be like other children made me fight for my health. The doctor's verdict was that if I should survive my thirtieth birthday, I should perhaps be safe. When I expressed the wish to try Christian Science, two members of my family encouraged me, saying that if it would heal my difficulty—a sever bowel trouble of years' standing, which at that time was most aggravated—they, too, would certainly turn to it. All medicine was done away with from the start. And "glory to God," in about three months' time this healing was completed through my reading and pondering of the textbook. It took place over fifteen years ago and has been permanent.

I was also wonderfully protected when struck by an automobile. It carried me downhill for some distance, but by clinging to the thought of God's presence, and realizing that accidents are unknown to divine Mind, I was enabled to hold on to the hood of the car. When finally I lost my hold, the car had nearly stopped; I was able to throw myself out of its way, and was not run over. This experience stands out in my life, for although there were bodily bruises and abrasions, they seemed to be no part of me. Through the loving help of a practitioner, my thought was lifted so far above material conditions that only love and praise to God reigned in my consciousness.

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