Testimony of Healing April 11, 1936 Issue

When my mother's case of inward hemorrhage of the...

May Morris

When my mother's case of inward hemorrhage of the brain, accompanied by paralysis, was pronounced hopeless by several of our leading physicians, in my extremity I turned to God in prayer, and into my consciousness came the thought of Christian Science. There were no practitioners in our midst, so my mother journeyed two hundred miles to a practitioner, and was healed in Christian Science.

She then gave me a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and I commenced the study in earnest. The clarity of explanation regarding this wonderful religion, revealing a God who never made or permitted sickness or any inharmony, gave me hope that I might find that for which I had hungered for years. My first experience was the healing of my baby of chronic inaction of one of the organs of the body. After one treatment he was permanently healed. The treatment was promised at half past six in the evening. I put him to bed and stayed by his cot, and the healing occurred in just fifteen minutes.

While attending my first lecture, I heard a short sentence which revolutionized my whole life. The lecturer said, among other beautiful truths, that God is not a person and heaven is not a place. Intuitively I knew this was true, and my former false concept of religion was destroyed. Now I felt I had lost the only God I had, and there was nothing to put in His place. For five months I asked the students whom I met if they could tell me what God was, but I only became more confused and worried. To find God became the only worthwhile thing in my life. This mental turmoil finally manifested itself in a swelling under my ear, which gave me intense pain. As a practitioner had come into the field during these months, I applied for treatment. The swelling increased, until it filled all the space between my shoulder and ear, and the pain was indescribable. On the third day, while I was receiving a visit from the practitioner, he remarked, "Perhaps you do not pray enough." This remark opened the flood tides of my pent-up desire, and I said, "How can I pray, when I do not know and cannot find God?" After I had explained to him my great need and longing to know God, he told me to try to be tidier, more systematic, kinder, and so on, and God would reveal Himself to me.

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