Testimony of Healing July 14, 1934 Issue

About twenty-five years ago I was ill and utterly discouraged,...

Lura H. Morgan

About twenty-five years ago I was ill and utterly discouraged, having passed through the ordeal of one severe surgical operation and being threatened with the necessity of another. For a time I knew of nothing to do but to follow the advice of the physicians, and a second operation was the only solution offered. However, I did not accept that course because I learned of a surer, better way to find health and happiness.

Christian Science came to my attention and I was led to visit a practitioner. The thoughts she expressed about God and man were so plausible that almost immediately I asked for help. Through treatments and the wise and loving counsel of that consecrated practitioner, together with my own study of the textbook, I came "into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged" (Science and Health, pp. 226, 227). My fetters began to fall away and have been doing so ever since as I have learned that they are in my own thinking, the results of incorrect concepts of God and man. To quote again from our textbook (p. 223), "The fetters of man's finite capacity are forged by the illusion that he lives in body instead of in Soul, in matter instead of in Spirit."

During all the years since I first glimpsed the truth of Christian Science it has brought healing for physical ills whenever they have assailed me, comfort in every trial, and a sense of peace and joy that can come only through learning God aright. I know that through the application of this truth faults of disposition have in some measure been overcome. As I learn more of God's goodness, I look forward with expectancy of good rather than backward with regret at disappointments and failures. Christian Science has given me a plan and purpose, and a desire to be useful such as I had not known before. It is helping me to discern the good and beautiful as I increasingly realize that beauty and goodness are spiritual, and that "there is none good but one, that is, God."

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