Testimony of Healing January 8, 1938 Issue

My first experience in Christian Science was an instantaneous...

Olga Linton

My first experience in Christian Science was an instantaneous healing of appendicities at a Wednesday testimony meeting. Soon after this I gave up taking patent medicine, without which I thought I could not digest anything, as I found that it was not helping me any more. Another outstanding physical healing came much later, and I should like to relate it in detail, because it helped me to realize the infinitude of good and the nothingness of evil.

My husband and I were taking a camp for children for two weeks during the summer. Previous to this experience I had worked mentally for the camp in general, knowing that there is but one government and one governor, even God, and that nothing "that defileth, ... or maketh a lie," could enter in; also that there is in reality no other responsibility but to reflect to the best of our ability Life, Truth, Love, our Father-Mother God. The freedom of the child of God from all evil was also realized.

During a storm an accident occurred. We had no shelter over our kitchen, and my helper and I were preparing food for the week end under rather difficult circumstances. And when suddenly a blinding rain descended upon us, with gusts of wind and hail, I snatched off the fire a large iron pan full of boiling fruit and ran towards the food tent. My foot caught in a tent peg and I fell headlong, striking the ground with the pan. The boiling hot contents splashed up and covered my face and eyes. My friend, who had heard me a minute before calling to her, spoke to me, but I could not answer, the pain was so intense. She came out and saw me lying on the ground. I begged her to take me to the stream to wash my face. When I had done so, I found I could not see. I cannot say how grateful I was for the mental work done the day before, because I was not afraid. The thing uppermost in my thought was that I had an important duty to perform the next day, Sunday, and knew that nothing could prevent my doing it. Fortunately, the children were away from camp at the time, in charge of my husband. My friend saw me to my tent. I took up the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy, but could not see to read. My friend read to me. Then I asked her to go on with the duites, as the rain had stopped, and I now felt I could cope with the situation. I began to insist that God's government is here and now, and that man is subject only to Spirit, never to matter. In half an hour all pain left me. I continued to work, rejoicing to know that evil is unreal. Someone called to see me, and I felt so happy in the realization of my true selfhood and the unreality of evil, that I faced the visitor and talked to him of the affairs of the camp for twenty minutes. He apparently noticed nothing unusual and did not make any personal remarks, only saying he was very much pleased to see me taking a rest. In an hour's time my sight began to come back. When my husband returned with the children, he was told of what had occurred. I was serving cocoa and biscuits in the evning. By that time my sight was much better and, although my forehead, eyelids, and front of scalp were covered with brown scabs, no one made any comments, or seemed to notice anything unusual about me; and why should they? It was so completely unreal to me that it was bound to be unreal to them. And how grateful I felt to be able to do what I had to do the next day without any difficulty whatsoever!

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