Testimony of Healing February 8, 1941 Issue

The testimonies given in our churches and written in our...

Mary E. Lynn

The testimonies given in our churches and written in our periodicals have always been a source of great inspiration to me, and my own testimony would be incomplete unless it began with an expression of gratitude for them.

For over twenty years Christian Science has been my only physician. It has not only healed me of physical difficulties, but has also enabled me to do each necessary task better and more joyously. Christian Science was accepted in our home after the attending physician told me that he could do nothing more for a member of the family who had been ill with typhoid fever for over six weeks. He was beautifully healed through Christian Science. At the same time I was relieved of a very severe disorder about which physicians had made direful predictions. This healing was gradual; as the understanding of perfect God and perfect man unfolded in my consciousness, the discordant condition vanished into its native nothingness. I have experienced the healing of appendicitis, tonsillitis, a tendency to sick headaches, and other physical troubles.

When a member of our family passed on about eight months after I had taken up this study, and after I had had the wonderful proof that Christian Science does heal, I was dismayed and much discouraged. A loving friend quoted the statement from our textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 574), "The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares." I resented this at the time because I could not see how there could be an "angel entertained unawares" in an experience that seemed so heartbreaking to me. However, for three years that statement kept coming to me, and each time I struggled with it, finally putting it out of thought, apparently no nearer an understanding of it. At last, like a light turned on suddenly, I saw the truth about the whole situation: that God is Life, always has been and always will be the only Life; that God's creation is finished, complete, perfect, and that there is no death. Indeed, this realization was the "angel entertained unawares." A sense of blessed peace, such as I had never known, came over me. This statement became to me one of the most precious in our textbook. Many times since, when I have seen the unreality of the discord in a circumstance which seemed "wrathful and afflictive," the same glorious peace has come and the inharmony disappeared.

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