Testimony of Healing April 4, 1936 Issue

While I was suffering the very depths of mental anguish,...

June Webster

While I was suffering the very depths of mental anguish, trying to solve the problem of disappointment and disillusionment, with small comfort from the Bible, as I then understood it, I was asked to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The first sentence in the Preface (p. vii), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings," arrested my attention and gave me such peace and comfort as I had never known before. I read no more that day. I feared that if I read more, I should lose the beautiful thought I had received. I repeated the sentence over and over, and each time I seemed to mount higher and higher in the spiritual realm. Until then I had not realized how intently I was looking for something, not knowing just what it was. From that day on my life began to change. The friend who had lent me the book said that from my mental attitude I could never be recognized as the same person.

This beautiful spiritual illumination which so flooded my consciousness has been a source of great encouragement to me. I saw all things as possible to God, and to me as His child. But I must prove all this. Within a few months an experience came which made a very lasting impression. The pains of childbirth were silenced with the truth, and when I was told that my baby girl was blind, with congenital cataracts over both eyes, I knew I had an unfailing remedy. The truth was applied—that God made all that was made, and made it good, not defective nor deformed. The healing was slow, and there were times of discouragement, but I never doubted that normal vision would come as she needed it. This proved to be the case, and she finished high school with her grade.

Resentment in the guise of sensitiveness and false pride was overcome when I analyzed my thoughts and discovered that I had nursed this enemy since childhood, causing sorrow, chagrin, and humiliation. The complete healing was slow, but I grew spiritually with each experience. I was healed of constipation while reading the textbook. I have had instantaneous healings of colds and headaches, and of shingles in two weeks. I was healed of pneumonia by a positive assertion that "what God cannot do, man need not attempt" (ibid., p. 231), when an interested friend suggested that a physician be called. In fact, Christian Science has been my only physician for mental, financial, and physical ailments for more than twenty years.

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