Testimony of Healing June 3, 1939 Issue

In 1918, after I had been treated first by doctors of...

Alene G. Thompson

In 1918, after I had been treated first by doctors of medicine, then by an osteopath, and lastly had had electric treatments over a period of two years, "and was nothing bettered," I was healed in three days while reading "Unity of Good" by Mary Baker Eddy. The trouble had been diagnosed as a combination of nervous diseases, manifested in neuritis, which deprived me of the normal use of both arms. The healing was quick, complete, and permanent. A few weeks after this healing I gave a public performance on the piano.

A few years ago I was troubled with internal growths. Mental pictures, which had been formed from hearing the symptoms of a much-feared disease discussed, seemed to possess my thought. I was engulfed in terror, doubt, and a feeling that I could not find the way out of such pain. When I had become so darkened in thought that I could not see a ray of light, I asked for help from a Christian Science practitioner. What comfort the practitioner's exalted thought and calm, assured voice meant to me during those days! I soon knew that I must and could understand my way out of darkness and prove that there is nothing impossible to God. My healing began when I held steadfastly to the fact that, my true selfhood being a reflection of Mind, I could have no mental pictures except those which came from Mind. This statement on page 264 of Science and Health was inspiring: "The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spiritual and eternal." The realization of the truth of that statement stilled fear and prepared me for the next step, which was the dissolution of the hardness called growths.

I knew that because mortal mind and body are one, the hardness must be in my thinking. This statement showed me my real work (ibid., p. 242): "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death." Replacing intolerance with tolerance, criticism with kindness, self-righteousness with true righteousness, self-will with divine will, was a slow process, but sure in results. The day came when obedience to divine leading in thought, word, and act was more natural to me; and I found complete freedom from the physical trouble.

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