Testimony of Healing April 14, 1934 Issue

I am deeply grateful for many healings in Christian Science,...

Millicent Pull

I am deeply grateful for many healings in Christian Science, including influenza, quinsy, bilious attacks, and, more recently, severe attacks of neuritis and nervous suffering from noise. It is for the healing of loneliness, however, that I wish to express my gratitude at this time.

As an only child whose parents traveled continually, I never knew the pleasures of either family life or school life, save in brief snatches, nor did it seem possible ever to have any friends, This aggravated an already timid, nervous, and morbid disposition. When I married, this wandering life continued, and there was nothing to stop these tendencies from increasing. The time came when Love opened the door of escape from this prison of error. I was forced by a combination of circumstances to spend three months alone in Europe, making all my own arrangements for hotels and traveling. Only those who have suffered from the bane of intense nervousness and shyness can imagine what this meant.

Being in a Swiss town and feeling on the verge of a nervous breakdown with illness and loneliness, I decided to go to the Christian Science Reading Room and honestly try to see the healing truth about this condition. When the time came for the room to close I had a word with the librarian, and just then, from the inner room, came a young woman, who smiled and said: "Whatever should we do without our Reading Rooms? I came in here so overcome with a sense of loneliness that I felt quite desperate, but I have had a lovely time studying, and things look quite different." I said that was why I had come, too, and we walked off together laughing. Eventually we stayed in the same hotel, studied the Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly together, went sight-seeing together, and had a truly happy time. Had we not both been obediently trying to work out this problem in line with Principle we might still be seeking its solution!

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