Testimony of Healing May 21, 1938 Issue

With a heart overflowing with gratitude, I wish to bear...

Cyril Wright

With a heart overflowing with gratitude, I wish to bear humble and grateful testimony to the healing efficacy of Christian Science. Each day I grow more thankful for the untold blessings it has brought to my family and to me. It has brought us joy and happiness greater than we ever dreamed possible; it has brought harmony into our home, where before there was discord; it has brought an increasing knowledge of the abundance of supply. It is overcoming daily such unlovely traits of character as selfishness, self-love, and willfulness. It has brought many physical healings, such as the joining of severed tendons, and those of semi-invalidism, so-called incurably leaking heart, fractured skull, ptomaine poisoning, and chronic catarrh of eighteen years' duration, which manifested itself in a daily inflamed sore throat. Most of these healings were slow and required earnest, patient study and application of Christian Science, but for them we are increasingly grateful.

At this time I am particularly thankful for a healing which occurred nearly two years ago, and which has borne much fruit. While playing tennis I suffered what seemed to be a dislocation of the bone structure at the base of the neck, which manifested itself in great pain, in the dropping of the right shoulder considerably lower than the left, and the forcing of the head far to the left. I was unable either to straighten my head or to turn it at all to the right. A little while later, at the home of a friend, a quiet room was lovingly given me in which to study, and a Christian Science practitioner was called, who kindly and instantly went to work. While I was reading certain passages from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, as directed by the practitioner, the sense of pain from the dislocation grew so great that perspiration stood out all over my body and streamed down my face. However, in obedience and gratitude we persisted in the declaration of "perfect God and perfect man"Science and Health, p. 259), until my thought cleared. Within two hours I was enabled to go out, joyfully aware that my head and shoulders were erect and in proper alignment. However, as some sense of pain and stiffness remained, I realized that error still claimed to be present in my thought. The practitioner continued to work, and I remained at home the following day to seek further enlightenment. While I was studying prayerfully and earnestly, there came to my thought the great truth that it was not physical healing which I needed, but healing of pride, self-love, self-will, egotism, erroneous qualities that had been so disguised that I had been totally unconscious of them. I began to understand more clearly than ever before what Mrs. Eddy meant when she said, "Self-love is more opaque than a solid body" (ibid., p. 242). I began to realize that as I expressed more of the Godlike, spiritual, living qualities of humility, love, unselfishness, gratitude, fearlessness, and the rest, the manifestations on my body could not help but be harmonious. With this light came a great wave of gratitude, and with my increasing gratitude to God for His revealed goodness, all trace of the dislocation, the stiffness, and the pain vanished completely and permanently. Since then more joy, more peace, more freedom and happiness have come to me than ever before, showing that "trials are proofs of God's care" (ibid., p. 66). Surely we can know of a certainty that we "shall know the truth, and the truth shall make [us] free." I am grateful that the unfoldment of this experience opened the way to the grand privilege of class instruction with its constant and increasing blessings.

I can never express in words my humble gratitude for the blessing of Christian Science, for Mrs. Eddy, whose spirituality made this revelation possible to us, to the loving practitioners ever ready to help us through all our trials, for the churches, the lectures, and the literature, and for friends who daily forgive our shortcomings and help us to see the light. I pray that I may prove my gratitude by good works.

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