Testimony of Healing February 28, 1942 Issue

For over thirty years Christian Science...

Aurilla Allyn Wright

For over thirty years Christian Science has been the sustaining power in my life. It came to me in dark hours of sickness and sorrow, and its message of hope and joy and reward for obedience has never left me. I was healed of a desire to die, and given a joy and a hope in living that have stayed with me. Sciatica, spinal trouble, and nervous indigestion were the physical ills of which I was healed. During these years I have experienced the happiness of seeing many members of my family embrace Christian Science, and many healings and adjustments take place in all branches of the family.

I wish especially to relate a healing that has come to me in later years. I had been carrying for some years the handicap of deafness. I continued, notwithstanding, with all my activities, and at times asked help for the problem. The greatest deprivation that came to me during those years was that I could not hear the testimonies given in the Wednesday evening meetings unless the speaker was very near to me. I could hear the Readers on Sunday if directly in range of their voices, but my outlook for the midweek meetings was indeed a depressing one.

There came a time, about four years ago, when I was obliged to make a decision in regard to my own affairs. I saw that it required some personal sacrifice. In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy says (p. 288), "Wisdom in human action begins with what is nearest right under the circumstances, and thence achieves the absolute." I worked diligently to know and do the "nearest right" and took the step—change of location. This definite step brought to me pleasant surroundings and leisure time for my own work. This time and place had been lovingly prepared for me. It was almost as if a voice said to me, "Now is the time." I got to work at what I call mental house cleaning. I searched my thought to see what, in my daily living, had brought this seeming handicap upon me. What did I think or do that would or could compel me to keep such a burden? In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 585), Mrs. Eddy defines "ears" thus: "Not organs of the so-called corporeal senses, but spiritual understanding." I knew that I had spiritual understanding, but what had deadened it? What had I been thinking, doing, through these years, that my hearing should be so blunted, so impaired?

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