Testimony of Healing November 26, 1938 Issue

Since babyhood I have been taught in Christian Science...

Bonnie Emma Lane

Since babyhood I have been taught in Christian Science to be governed always by divine Principle, God. I attended a Christian Science Sunday School and learned to read and study the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly. When I was a few months old I was cured of bronchial pneumonia by Christian Science treatment, and a few years later I was healed of diphtheria. At the age of nine, while visiting an aunt, I had a severe attack of earache. Since I was away from the help always received at home, I began at once to read in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy the chapter entitled "Christian Science Practice," as I had seen my mother do. I believed implicitly the letter of whatever I read, but I had always wondered about the location of "the secret place of the most High." Suddenly it came to me that it was in prayer and in at-one-ment with God. The finding of the secret place filled my thought with such joy that I was instantaneously healed. Since that time, through the Word of God as revealed in Christian Science, I have been healed of tonsillitis, measles, fevers, colds, ivy poisoning, sprains, and other aches and pains of various sorts.

Throughout my school life the protective and guiding power of Christian Science has been proved in many instances. Through absolute reliance upon divine Love, I was provided with the financial means for obtaining a college education. Thoughts of envy, strife, and hatred have been met and mastered through the acknowledgment that the one supreme, ever-present Love is the only attraction. When I was elected the head of the student government of a campus of about eight hundred, the desire came to me to realize that all are directed and governed wisely. I was greatly strengthened in this realization by the prophecy of Isaiah, "And the government shall be upon his shoulder." Problems of the campus activity were always solved when I could follow the command in our textbook (p. 393), "Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind governs, and that in Science man reflects God's government." Being the only Christian Scientist in the college, I found it my privilege to bring about lovingly, through The Christian Science Monitor, corrections of many false impressions of Christian Science. The Monitor was held in great esteem and admiration, as faculty and student alike read it and recognized its worth. Aid for all my daily studies, themes, and recitations came to me through this channel, and this paper was invaluable in all my curricular and outside reading.

During an influenza epidemic, a sense of fear of contagion spread through the college; and the students voiced fear of being required to remain on the campus during a long-awaited holiday. All night I worked to overcome the fear of contagion, with the comforting assurance of the words of the Psalmist, "There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." The next day the number of cases abated, and we were free to go home. At the same time this trouble suddenly attacked me, and I had a recurrence of an old belief of having a very high fever whenever I was sick. I tried to realize that the protective work done for the school could not be reversed by any such manifestation of sickness. As I studied the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, which I had learned when I was a little child in Sunday school, came to me. I saw clearly that those children of God were not touched by the heat of the fiery furnace, and in the same way I could realize God's omnipotence by seeing the nothingness of the fever. The fever disappeared at once, and I was instantaneously healed and was able to continue my activities the next day as usual.

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