Testimony of Healing October 6, 1945 Issue

I am grateful for having had...

Mary A. Chapman

I am grateful for having had Christian parents. My father, whenever he could not attend church service, would spend some time of the day reading the Sermon on the Mount. When he came to the last verse of this chapter, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," he would close the Bible, saying: "Now Jesus would not have said that unless it were possible. But how can it ever be?"

I was always hoping to find the answer to his sincere desire, and when I came to Christian Science I found it in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 428): "The great spiritual fact must be brought out that man is, not shall be, perfect and immortal." I was instantaneously healed of an incurable disease diagnosed by the leading medical practitioners as eczema, which covered my whole body, and from which I had suffered twelve years. This healing occurred twenty-five years ago, and has been permanent.

Another healing came at the time of the passing on of my son, who loved Christian Science but had not truly relied on it for healing. The separation and grief seemed very severe, but I was wonderfully healed and sustained through this bitter experience. The verse in Revelation (21:4). "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away," and the sentence on page 72 of the textbook, "In Science, individual good derived from God, the infinite All-in-all, may flow from the departed to mortals; but evil is neither communicable nor scientific," gave me great comfort. Mrs. Eddy says on page 55 of Science and Health: "In the words of St. John: 'He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.' This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science."