Testimony of Healing June 21, 1941 Issue

My coming into the light of spiritual understanding covers...

Elizabeth Mason

My coming into the light of spiritual understanding covers many years of experience. As a young child I was blessed with a loving nature and a firm belief in the power of prayer. As I grew to young womanhood, love of the Scriptures accompanied me. I became a member of an orthodox church, serving wherever needed; but the time came when I began to realize that earnest, prayerful thought was gently preparing me to take a higher step. Soon I was led to a large city, and took up residence in a home where Christian Science was presented to me. As its truths unfolded, old queries, doubts, and fears were replaced with a new, illumined sense of the Christ, Truth.

A friend, too, related a healing of an incurable disease which she had experienced through Christian Science, and she also invited me to a church service in the city. I did not know of Mrs. Eddy or her great work, although my search had led me to many denominations. I was so inspired by the services at the Christian Science church that I was sure I had found the answer to my prayer, and I continued going there. I literally drank in all I could each week and procured a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. When the light of its spiritual interpretation of the Bible reached me, my joy knew no bounds, and I realized that divine healing is as practical now as in Jesus' time, and that the cause of all inharmony and suffering was being shown to me, with the workable means of destroying it if I accepted the teachings of Truth and gained a clearer spiritual apprehension of the real man. My next steps were class instruction and membership in The Mother Church and in branch churches, where my growth and joy increased with service in all phases of the work, particularly as First Reader in the society in the little home town to which I had returned.

An outstanding healing in my experience was of a paralyzed condition of the right arm. A practitioner worked on the case for a week without results. One day, after listening to my outpouring of much error concerning the settlement of property and all it involved with relatives, she very sweetly but courageously told me that the trouble was uncovered—that it was resentment and self-pity. One can scarcely imagine my rebellion, after all I had done for the family. I was as one felled with a great blow. Finally, infinite calm came into my consciousness; also, the "still small voice" of Truth, and the Scripture, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." I opened the door, and that contact with the Father opened my eyes to what was binding me. Though not instantaneous, my healing did come, as I replaced resentment with love, and self-pity with gratitude.

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