Testimony of Healing June 1, 1946 Issue

During the past year I was...

Ernest W. Bryant

During the past year I was taken suddenly ill and had to take to my bed. Being in the service I was obliged to have a doctor examine me, but he was unable to diagnose any particular ailment. After a day without any physical sign of improvement another doctor was called, who also was unable to give the condition a name. He told me I had several symptoms of different ailments, but not all the symptoms of any one in particular. I was greatly comforted by this, knowing that a "house divided against itself shall not stand" (Matt. 12:25). The two doctors, in consulting together, decided that it would be better if I went to a hospital to be kept under observation.

Upon arrival at the hospital I was once more examined, this time by the house physician, who found the same confusion of symptoms. The hospital surgeon was then called. After examining me, he decided that I had appendicitis, and that he would operate on me that night. I immediately got to work to know the truth about my real selfhood and that of all men; also, I had to cast out the fear of an operation. I knew that the surgeon was in reality a child of God, governed by the same Principle as I was; that he had no wish but to get me well in the best way that he knew.

I was examined again during the evening, and this time I thought the surgeon looked a little puzzled; but he told me that there was another man in the ward upon whom he would operate first, and then it would be my turn. I read almost continuously from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, especially the chapter on Christian Science Practice. A conviction of the absolute government of God gradually developed in my thought; the outstanding passage to me was (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."

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