Testimony of Healing July 21, 1934 Issue

Writing a testimony for our periodicals is, in itself, a...

Jefferson C. Grinnalds

Writing a testimony for our periodicals is, in itself, a demonstration. For several years I have desired to write one, but have listened to error and refrained. It was my great privilege to attend the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church in 1933, to hear read the reports expressing progress and gratitude, and to experience physical healing in the church edifice, as well as a healing of procrastination.

When I arrived at the church about ten minutes before the door opened for the Sunday evening service, severe pains and partial paralysis had developed in one leg, so that it was equally difficult to stand, walk, sit, or lie down. Once in the building, I selected a seat near the front, and before the service I memorized the quotation from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 270:26–30) which is graven on the wall at the right of the Readers' platform. By applying the understanding which came that "disease is mental," that "the human mind alone suffers, is sick," and that "the divine Mind alone heals," I was healed of the discordant condition. A few days later I drove an automobile four hundred and fifty miles to return home in one day, using the leg and foot which had been healed so recently.

About twelve years ago I began reading our textbook. At first I seemed to get nothing from it. Two months thereafter I sprained an ankle on the way to a friend's house. There I continually repeated inaudibly "the scientific statement of being" (ibid., p. 468). That was the only passage from the textbook that I knew from memory. The next morning I did not remember the ankle until about a half hour after arising and preparing to go down town. Imagine my surprise to find no abnormal discoloration, no swelling, pain, or soreness. The healing was complete.

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