Testimony of Healing December 23, 1939 Issue

Twenty-five years ago there seemed to be so many things...

Elsie Whitehurst

Twenty-five years ago there seemed to be so many things wrong with me physically that a kind friend recommended to my mother that she get the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and let me study it. I had been a sickly child and was having a hard time as I grew into womanhood. In three days' time I was healed of chronic constipation by the truths revealed in that book. I read and reread those glorious statements of Truth many times. It was as though I had been starving. I had been hungering and thirsting for righteousness. Periodic attacks of malaria, chronic backaches, headaches, biliousness, nervousness, and eyestrain—conditions which formerly had bound me—gradually disappeared.

Several years ago, while visiting relatives, I became ill with what was diagnosed as pneumonia. There was considerable fear in the home because I refused medical assistance. I asked that they call my husband and have him notify a Christian Science practitioner, but I did not get better immediately. I overheard a long-distance call informing my husband that I was considerably worse and that I was approaching a crisis; he was advised to come at once. He came with instructions from the practitioner that I was to get up and accompany him home. I knew at once that I could do this. The mesmerism of fear and pain was broken. In a very few hours we were driving over rough, frozen, country roads to the railroad station, and I went home rejoicing; and in a few days was completely healed.

Nine years ago, about a month before our second child was expected, I engaged the services of a practitioner. Because of the loving work she did, I was fearless. No anesthetic was administered, and I experienced practically no discomfort. This was a Thursday about noon; on Friday, I sat up while the nurse made the bed; on Saturday, I was up for a short while; and on Sunday, I was able to stay up. With gratitude in my heart, I have looked back to this experience many times when I have needed to remember what the power of God can do.

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