Testimony of Healing June 12, 1937 Issue

Many times during the past ten years I have been...

Mildred B. Watson

Many times during the past ten years I have been privileged to experience the healing power of Christian Science. Two healings in particular I should like to mention, in the hope that they will prove helpful to other who may have similar problems to meet.

The first healing was of a very aggravated and distressing form of bronchitis. For over twenty years I had watched my father suffer with this ailment before he passed on, and I had always felt so helpless when confronted with it, either in myself or in someone else, even after I had been a student of Christian Science for some years. As soon as I realized that I was unable to meet the condition myself, I telephoned to a practitioner for help. At the end of five days I felt so uplifted mentally that I was able to carry on the work myself, and in a short time the healing was complete. More outstanding to me than the physical healing was the destruction of the sense of helplessness. I realized then that one error was no more real than another. In analyzing this condition later, I was aware that the indulgence in anger and impatience had opened the door of my thought to the entrance and manifestation of error, and that stubbornness in refusing to undertake certain important church work was responsible for the prolonging of the belief. These errors of thought had to be seen, acknowledged, and destroyed before complete healing was manifested.

The second healing was an instantaneous one. One morning I started down the cellar stairs with a basket of clothes in my arms. On the second step from the top my foot slipped, and I fell forward to the floor below. My first thought was to wonder if I could manage to get back upstairs, and lie on the sofa. Immediately another and better thought came, and it was this: "Christian Science teaches that man is spiritual and not material. Then the real you never fell down those stairs, so why are you sitting there indulging in self-pity?" I arose at once, and continued to do the work I had outlined for the day. In the afternoon I drove my car without any discomfort, even though in falling I had struck one arm severely. At the end of the day I could scarcely realize that the incident had taken place.

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