Testimony of Healing July 19, 1947 Issue

My first healing in Christian Science...

Bertha Brown with contributions from Emma Kunker

My first healing in Christian Science was that of a terrible sense of grief occasioned by the passing on of my child. The grief had undermined my health and I went from physician to physician experiencing little or no relief. Finally I sought the help of a chiropractor as a last resort. After six weeks of daily treatments he admitted that he had done nothing for me and asked me if I had ever heard of Christian Science. He told me that he knew personally of several remarkable healings it had brought about, and advised me to get in touch with a Christian Science practitioner.

The healing of grief came about in this way. Upon my first visit to the practitioner I told her of the paroxysms of weeping that came upon me almost every day. The practitioner told me that if this took place again I should lay aside whatever I was doing and take either my Bible or Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, let it open at random, and I would find something to heal and comfort me.

The occasion presented itself very soon. I stopped washing the breakfast dishes and proceeded to my desk and picked up my Bible. I let it open, and when I looked down my tears were wiped away more effectively than if I had used my hand-kerchief. I saw only one verse, in bold relief as it were (Rev. 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." For a long time I sat as one shocked; then I was led to go upstairs. I went into each room and stood still, very conscious of the sun streaming through the windows. Each time I said aloud, "The Comforter has come." Then I went downstairs to my desk chair again. I asked myself, "Why did I go upstairs and proceed as I did?" The answer came very clearly, "Don't you recall that you were in the habit of going into each room, utterly oblivious of the sunshine and remarking only, 'How dark, how empty!'" Then I realized that I had experienced the Christ-healing and that I had been divinely led to see the truth of our Leader's statement in the textbook (p. 266), "But this seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love."

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