Testimony of Healing July 7, 1934 Issue

Christian Science came into our home when I was a very...

Martha R. Lindsey

Christian Science came into our home when I was a very small girl, so I have enjoyed its protecting power for many years. I shall never forget the first time I attended the Christian Science Sunday School. The first song sung was our Leader's beautiful hymn beginning "O gentle presence" (Poems, pp. 4, 5), and when we came to the part, "O make me glad for every scalding tear," I was puzzled. I wondered how I could ask God to make me glad for tears, and scalding ones, too! The meaning was gradually unfolded to me, and in the years that have followed I am learning to be truly thankful for every experience, no matter how trying, which purifies my own thought and benefits others as well.

A short time ago I was healed of kidney trouble and inflammation of the gall bladder. This experience taught me the meaning of patience. I had had many instantaneous healings in Christian Science, and had never been in bed a whole day in my life. For a week I had dull pains, which turned into very sharp ones. I worked for myself as best I could, but when the suffering became intense I called a Christian Science practitioner for help. The healing, however, did not take place for a week, and during that time I became quite discouraged. Only when I realized that I was not striving to be made well but was trying to learn more of God, good, was I freed from all pain.

Not long ago, while alone, I became quite ill and filled with fear. Unable to reach a loving Christian Science friend who had helped me many times before, I became excited almost beyond reason. I felt that I was passing on, but managed to get the Bible and turn to the ninety-first Psalm. When I came to the words, "Thou shalt not be afraid ... for the destruction that wasteth at noonday," all fear left me and I was quite calm. How happy I was that God had healed me!

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