Testimony of Healing March 2, 1935 Issue

In the year 1899, when I turned to Christian Science for...

Carolyn P. Snyder

In the year 1899, when I turned to Christian Science for help, I was "of all men most miserable." There did not seem to be a well organ in my body. I had suffered from many of the physical conditions for so long that they had come to be accepted as a part of myself and therefore to be endured. I suffered severely from heart trouble, and as it was said to have been inherited from my mother, who had passed on with that ailment, the condition seemed hopeless. I also suffered from indigestion, rheumatism, diphtheritic sore throat, attacks of which came several times during the winter and lasted for days; indigestion so severe that I found it much easier to go without food than to endure the suffering it caused when I ate; and a most irritating form of skin disease which made its appearance with the beginning of cold weather and lasted until late spring. This last condition was healed and forgotten until a year had passed and I heard someone give a testimony of healing from such a condition; then the truth of the statement that these things "shall not be remembered, nor come into mind," was brought home to me.

The healing which seems to be outstanding in my experience is of violent sick headaches which occurred so often that I was in a constant state of either just recovering from or about to succumb to one of them. I was much benefited by my study of Christian Science, and was never again confined to my bed because of them; but they always seemed a possibility, something that might occur at any moment. This state of thought ran of for several years, and although every physical difficulty that I had claimed as mine was healed, the headaches were not yet destroyed. So it was not surprising that one morning I should awaken with all the old symptoms, and what was an immeasurably worse attack, with an utter letdown of all resistance to its seeming power.

I managed to get through the breakfast time, and then I began to talk to God. Through a great sense of humility I must have touched the Love that heals, for as clearly as though they had been spoken by a loving friend came the words from Science and Health (p. 14):"Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well." And that is just what I did find; instantly the whole sense of pain, sickness, and discouragement left me never to return.

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