Testimony of Healing October 23, 1937 Issue

For all the help and comfort I have received through...

Blanche A. Hathaway

For all the help and comfort I have received through reading the testimonies of healing in the Christian Science periodicals I am sincerely grateful. To read how others have worked out their problems according to what Mrs. Eddy teaches in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has always been a source of inspiration.

Recently, while I was canning fruit, a quart jar of boiling liquid broke, the contents pouring over my arm from the wrist to the elbow. For an instant the pain seemed quite intense. But immediately I declared aloud, "I refuse to burn myself." As I declared this I had a very clear realization of what Mrs. Eddy means (ibid., p. 161) where she states: "You say, 'I have burned my finger.' This is an exact statement, more exact than you suppose; for mortal mind, and not matter, burns it." I knew that matter was mindless, inert, and could do nothing of itself without the consent of mortal mind, and I positively refused to burn myself. Then I repeated the first line of "the scientific statement of being" (ibid., p. 468), "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter." Instantly all pain ceased. Then for the first time I looked at my arm. It appeared to be very much inflamed and swollen. But even so, a great sense of gratitude filled my thought for the freedom from pain, and for the fact that Christian Science teaches us how we can separate the real from the false, so that these experiences do not attach themselves to us. I have never felt more uplifted, and while dwelling on these thoughts I actually felt the physical healing take place; and in less than five minutes every trace of the experience had vanished.

Through the twenty-five years that I have been a student of Christian Science I have had many proofs of God's present protection, not only in cases like this one, but where decisions or finances were involved; also the healing of grief when loved ones passed on.

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