Testimony of Healing August 3, 1935 Issue

The ever-increasing value of Christian Science as a healing...

Grace M. Ackerson

The ever-increasing value of Christian Science as a healing factor in my experience prompts me to testify to its efficacy in producing harmonious activity. Not long ago the healing of a misplaced vertebra was experienced. For about three weeks it was impossible to lie down, walk, sit, or stand in comfort, as something was wrong with my spine. By constantly knowing that God's perfect child was not made of matter but was wholly spiritual, I fought the belief of anything being disconnected or dislocated, with the result that on getting ready for the Wednesday evening testimony meeting, I felt a movement in my spine as though something had slipped into place. The relief from suffering was so marked that I immediately expressed gratitude that perfection was again proved and comes through acknowledgment of everpresent good and denial of seeming evil. I have not suffered from this trouble since.

Profuse bleeding from the nose has been immediately stopped, through the same declaration and realization that man is perfect and spiritual. Black diphtheria was disposed of in one treatment by the affirmation of the truth. Two weeks later the last manifestation of soreness was healed. I am also grateful to testify to the healing of high blood pressure and the entire removal of all its discomforts through application of the truth about God and His relation to man. Blind boils, infection on the arm, and carbuncless have also been relieved and then healed. I wish also to express gratitude for an instantaneous healing of a sprained ankle. The continual expression of gratitude healed me of sciatica. Whenever the pain seemed unusually persistent and severe, I continued to voice joy and praise until the wrong manifestation left me, and finally came no more. Every autumn I used to be subject to chronic colds and sore throat, and I am happy to say that now none of these things ever appear.

I am grateful above all for our beloved Leader; her life of unselfishness and love for God and mankind impels a greater desire to emulate it. Class instruction and Association meetings are among the good things our Leader has provided for us, and for this I am truly grateful. Our Reading Rooms and our literature come in for their share of appreciation, as well as our enlightening lectures and church services. This expression of extreme gratitude and deep appreciation comes from one who was for many years a semi-invalid, the result of many operations and much sorrow. I was nervous and hopeless, so far as health was concerned, but upon reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was lifted out of the morass of materiality and its attendant evils, into the glorious day of Truth. I have learned to "run, and not be weary; ... walk, and not faint." For all these blessings I am truly grateful.

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