Testimony of Healing April 30, 1938 Issue

I should like to testify to some of the good I have...

Edith Ortmans

I should like to testify to some of the good I have received for a great number of years through Christian Science. The first time I heard this Science mentioned I confess I laughed at it. The second time, it came to me through a very dear friend who had proved it for herself. She wrote to me, quoting "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 468). As I read the words, a light dawned, and for the first time I began to see that the underlying truth about everything has nothing to do with sense testimony. This surely was what I had been longing for all my life. The whole world was changed to me, and all good appeared possible of achievement. I felt that if this were true, every problem could be solved.

My first demonstration of the power of Truth was over a sprained ankle. This sprain occurred as I was getting out of an omnibus, which was just moving on. The pain was intense. Then I thought, Well, if Christian Science is true, prove it now! I repeated "the scientific statement of being" to myself and on concluding found that all pain had ceased. I did not think of the ankle again until I went to bed, when, on taking off my stocking, I saw that the ankle was all purple and swollen. I put on a cold water compress, thinking there could be no harm in that. In the middle of the night I was awakened by a burning sensation in the foot. Conscience said, That's your compress! I took it off. After that I had no more trouble and used the foot freely. In three days all swelling had disappeared. This quick healing proved to me that Truth had done the work.

About a year after I came into Science, one of my children was taken with fits. I told a Christian Science friend of this and she simply said, "If you can entirely overcome your own fear of this, she need never have another fit." I absolutely believed this. The next time there were signs of a fit coming on, I turned my back on the child, and went out of the room with the thought, God can take better care of her than I can. After a second or two I went back into the room, and saw the child standing up and smiling. From that day there has been no recurrence. Some time later, while we were away on a summer holiday, this same child contracted a very sore throat with high fever. I tried to make the child feel God's nearness, telling her the story of Jacob's dream, explaining that the angels going up the ladder were like our thoughts of trust in good, and those coming down brought us the quieting sureness that Love was caring for us, and that we need not fear, because Love was nearer to us than the pain. Next morning she was quite normal, and in three days she was downstairs eating her meals with the others.

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