Testimony of Healing October 31, 1936 Issue

With a great desire to express sufficient gratitude for all...

Emma Mae Lovell

With a great desire to express sufficient gratitude for all Christian Science has done for me and mine, and also feeling that perhaps someone who needs to have courage strengthened may read this testimony, I shall tell of a healing I had over three years ago. Previous to that particular healing I had had others. While doing university work and teaching I had been directed and guided in a marvelous way in the educating of my daughters.

Then came the call for higher proofs in my own consciousness. The daughters had gone. I was seemingly alone. I thought I was living as a Christian Scientist should, but when the test came I found I had only a veneer of Science, as it were. There had been a belief of hereditary cancer in my family. One night I was stricken with what seemed to be a general breakdown. There were paroxysms of internal pain and heart failure. These conditions continued for days, while the faithful practitioner worked to uncover and destroy error. Then came violent hemorrhages and expulsion of a growth. Finally I became strong enough to go out to the home farm in Iowa to study Science and claim my dominion. The healing was complete when I realized that I was clinging to a false sense of human relationships and to a human sense of hurt at being left alone. When I realized that I could only be alone with God and consecrated my thought to all mankind in Christian Science, the healing was complete. Within a short time I was teaching school and have been doing so ever since.

I am grateful for the opportunity which I recently had of studying and resting for a period of time in the Sanatorium at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, with all the opportunities it gives me to serve, and for class instruction.—(Mrs.) Emma Mae Lovell, Chicago, Illinois.

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