Testimony of Healing March 31, 1945 Issue

It is twenty-five years since I...

Noel D. Bryan-Jones

It is twenty-five years since I had my first Christian Science healing. At that time I was instantaneously healed of the aftereffects of a severe attack of Spanish influenza. The completion of a quarter of a century of ever-increasing blessings provides an opportunity for expressing something of my deep gratitude to God for the great good which has unfolded to me through the study and application of Christian Science. During this time I have been privileged to see, in my own experience and that of others, so many different kinds of discord overcome by the application of Christian Science that it is difficult to condense this testimony within reasonable limits.

One experience I shall mention, however, because it taught me such a valuable lesson at the time and has helped me on several occasions since. It concerns one's motive for wishing to be healed. We know, of course, that a desire for healing so that we may just be relieved of discomfort is not in itself sufficient to bring about healing. We sometimes feel, though, that we should like to gain our healing in order to prove to someone around us that Christian Science does heal.

This, on the surface, seems a laudable motive. Examination, however, proves that its basis is unscientific because it presupposes two erroneous things. First, it accepts the false belief that there is something to heal, that there is a discordant physical condition from which one needs freedom, rather than recognizing the error as a dream from which one needs to be awakened. Secondly, it accepts the belief that there are a number of minds around one, taking cognizance of and even, maybe, criticizing one, whereas Christian Science healing can be accomplished solely on the basis of one divine Mind, the only Mind of which man is conscious or which is conscious of man.

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