Testimony of Healing May 2, 1942 Issue

Some time ago, the cumulative...

Hazelle Marion Berkness

Some time ago, the cumulative effects of bitterness, resentment, and regret, which had occupied much of my thinking, became physically manifested in a skin disease that was very painful and disfiguring. Although Christian Science had been the only religion I had ever known, I was so confused and bewildered by this disease that I began the futile search for healing in materia medica. Salves, light treatments, and dietary advice comprised my findings. One skin specialist told me that in all my experience I had never eaten the right kind of food; another pointed out that even though I was at that time wearing glasses, they were the wrong type, and I would have been better off not to have worn any. Thus, to my already overcrowded erroneous thinking was added a very large dose of self-pity.

With this accumulation I was sent to an eye specialist, who gave me many treatments, new glasses, and a lifetime prescription— stronger glasses every year. Upon receiving this information I knew that the only way that I could ever annul this decree was through the immediate application of Christian Science. I thereupon called a practitioner, and in six weeks' time I not only was healed of the skin trouble, but was freed from the need of wearing glasses; and I have never worn them since. This healing took place upon the full realization that rejoicing is a very necessary step in solving our varied problems. One evening, while singing Mrs. Eddy's hymn beginning, "Shepherd, show me how to go" (Poems, p. 14), I came to the words,

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