Testimony of Healing July 6, 1935 Issue

It was my privilege to be brought up in the teachings of...

Miriam Loraine Cortright

It was my privilege to be brought up in the teachings of Christian Science, and I should like to express something of the gratitude I feel for this great blessing.

When I entered school the principal came to my mother and said that something would have to be done about my eyes, which were quite crossed, one especially turning inward very noticeably. My mother was a young student of Christian Science at that time and had been earnestly trying to work out this condition. When the principal told her of the material methods it was felt must be employed to correct it, she felt greatly dismayed. But soon another caller came, my new teacher, who was a Christian Scientist and offered to help us. In a short time the eyes were entirely normal, and nothing more was ever said about them. This condition was believed to be hereditary, as also in the case of my teeth. When my second teeth came the ones in front were very crooked, the two eye teeth growing straight out instead of down. When I refused to wear a brace, my mother reminded me that I should have to be as persistent in knowing the truth as the brace would be in its way of correcting the crookedness. We worked diligently about it each day, and the teeth were straightened without any material means whatsoever. At a time of great fear regarding infantile paralysis, I was incapacitated by that condition, but the healing was completed in about two weeks. Also during my school days an irritating and disfiguring skin disease was healed through our understanding of Christian Science.

My college education was another proof of the efficacy of divine Love to meet human needs. At the time my family were not in a position to send me on to school, but the means to finish four years of college came to me from very unexpected sources. During this time I was healed of what would probably have been called a nervous breakdown in only a few days. It came during the period of examinations, and although I seemed unable to do any reviewing for my hardest and last examination, I was enabled, through knowing that God is intelligence, to pass that test with a very high grade. At the end of my second year I received a small legacy, with which I wished to take class instruction, although at that time it was not known how the next two years of school would be provided for. I am glad that I did do so, for it proved the truth of Jesus' words, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." After having class instruction I completed the last two years of college with even more abundant good, for during that time I had the opportunity to serve as Reader in our college Christian Science Organization, an experience for which I am very grateful. The organization was the means of leavening much of the materialistic thinking which confronts every college student.

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