Testimony of Healing August 25, 1934 Issue

I was a member of an orthodox church, but I scoffed at...

Lynn Cary Burrows

I was a member of an orthodox church, but I scoffed at what I thought Christian Science to be. When in the Orient in 1928 I met a spiritually-minded woman, whom I grew to love, never dreaming she was a Christian Science practitioner. Later I spoke to her of the fear of a long ocean voyage, for I had always been ill when on the water. She assured me that I need not be ill and told me why; then she told something of this wonderful Science and said that she would help me. I consented, but without any faith in what she said. The long voyage home was most harmonious—the first such I had ever known. This healing of seasickness has proved to be permanent.

After this experience I entered our three small children in the Christian Science Sunday School and attended my first service. I thought it restful and good for some people, but I was so steeped in worldly pleasures and false appetites that my eyes were closed to spirituality. A maid who was a Christian Scientist was in our home, and she and the children took care of their troubles beautifully. I remember that when the little boy stepped on a rusty nail the maid and he overcame any ill effects. The same boy was healed of bed-wetting through Science, when treatments from some of the best physicians had been without benefit.

I loved this truth for the children, but could not see it clearly myself. I thought I was having too much pleasure in society to consider changing, and was afraid I should have to give up too much. But later, as the result of an infected foot, I was forced to acknowledge this beautiful truth and demonstrate its power. The doctors had been very kind, and I am most grateful to them—they gave me the best attention, operated on my foot and dressed it daily—but after two months and a half the foot looked alarming, and they suggested another operation. I had borrowed a copy of Science and Health and read it occasionally, but did not know how to apply the truth it contained. Then some kind friends came to our home and told me again what this heavenly truth would do for me if radically relied upon. I called a practitioner and was taken to his home. I shall never forget the love he reflected, and how he lifted fear from my consciousness. I know now that I was healed in that first visit, although to material sense the foot still looked bad. The second day I was walking and soon forgot all about my foot. All evidence of a wound healed beautifully. I was spiritually uplifted from this healing and my joy knew no bounds. I was so absent from the body during this period that many other healings took place, including one of a bad wart on my finger which had bothered me for years, and for which I had done everything; also constipation and hemorrhoids.

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