Testimony of Healing January 1, 1938 ISSUE

In 1921, at a time of mental and physical need, I was told...

Muriel Lamb

In 1921, at a time of mental and physical need, I was told about Christian Science and advised to visit a local Reading Room to borrow Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I did so, and spent some time questioning the librarian. The answers to my questions, so clearly given, made a great impression upon me. While I was reading Science and Health a sudden illumination came to my thinking and I knew that the truth of being was set forth in these pages.

For some years I had suffered from the belief that nothing in life was really worth while, and that the best thing was to get through it as stoically as possible with the help of a strong human will. I was entirely healed of that belief during the first reading of the textbook; a new view of Life and its wonderful possibilities and of man's expressing God's will filled my consciousness and replaced the false, unhappy sense of things; and improved health resulted almost at once.

I have been instantaneously healed of congestion of the lungs; also of chilblains, which disfigured my hands each winter, and appeared to be chronic and incurable.

On one occasion, as the result of a fall in snow while on skis in Switzerland, I felt something twist internally. I made immediate declarations of the truth of being, of God's omnipresence and my inseparability from Him, and was able to return to the hotel and travel to England the next day as arranged, feeling nothing more than a little discomfort. Some days after my arrival home I experienced intense pain, was unable to stand upright, and found the physical evidence of rupture. I went to bed and read from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook most of the night. By early morning I had gained a clear conviction of man's "Godgiven dominion over the material senses" (Science and Health, p. 228). I was completely healed of pain and discomfort and was able to spend that day on some work which took me away from home. I hardly thought of the physical evidence again, and it disappeared shortly afterwards.

I am so grateful for the help of practitioners during my years of study; with this help fear and self-consciousness have been replaced, in some degree, with rightful freedom and spiritual understanding of true individuality. I am unspeakably grateful, too, for class instruction and subsequent Association meetings; also for the privilege of work in the Christian Science organization founded by our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.

(Mrs.) Muriel Lamb, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.

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