Testimony of Healing January 3, 1942 ISSUE

For many years I have desired...

Violet Odell

For many years I have desired to express my gratitude to God for showing us, through Mary Baker Eddy's spiritual revelation, the way in Christian Science.

I first heard of Christian Science nine years ago in California, where doctors had sent me for my health. I had been told that I could never live anywhere else, and on no account was I to try living in England. I became worse in California, and was led to Christian Science through hearing of many wonderful healings that were taking place around me. I became deeply interested in it, and soon gave up all material remedies. I overcame the belief that food could upset me, although I had been ordered to keep to a very strict diet. I was able in a short time to eat anything I desired, and have done so ever since. This statement by Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 222) regarding a man who had been healed of dyspepsia was helpful: "Food had less power to help or to hurt him after he had availed himself of the fact that Mind governs man, and he also had less faith in the so-called pleasures and pains of matter."

Although knowing comparatively little of Christian Science, I was wonderfully protected in many ways. In driving a car I found most helpful the statement by Mrs. Eddy (ibid., p. 424), "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony." While camping I was able to overcome, to a great extent, fear of rattlesnakes and bears, and also of insects. I have been protected while traveling by sea in bad storms, and have overcome seasickness.

I should like to express gratitude for the overcoming of loneliness by realizing that wherever we are, there is always the true idea of friendship and love, and as we practice being friendly and loving, we see friendship everywhere. Mind is everywhere, and we cannot be lonely when our thought is at one with God.

Over and over again in far-off countries I have been loved and looked after, and my need has been met in a wonderful way, when to mortal sense all material avenues seemed closed. I can never express enough gratitude to God for His wonderful care, and to the loving Christian Scientists who helped me in my time of need. How one appreciates the literature when far from home! Very often there are no churches and no practitioner near. One has to do one's own work and trust God, and He never fails us.

I am very grateful for membership in The Mother Church and for all the activities of the Christian Science movement, and especially for being allowed the privilege of staying at Hawthorne House, London, where one may rest and study, and where one is lovingly cared for by attendants. The peace and quiet there are indeed a blessing and meet a great need.

I am most grateful for all the help I have received through the study of Christian Science.— (Miss) Violet Odell, Ootacamund, Nilgiri Hills, India.

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