Testimony of Healing December 25, 1948 Issue

It is not possible for me to express...

Lolita L. Shelley

It is not possible for me to express fully in words my gratitude for Christian Science. I did not begin the study of this Science for physical healing, but rather to find an understanding of God and His universe. The textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was given to me by a loved sister-in-law, but I did not read the book for a number of years. Adverse circumstances and a growing desire to know more about God and His creation prompted me to begin reading. I could scarcely lay the book down, for I knew that by the grace of God I had found the answers to all of the problems which confront mankind. For a period of perhaps six months I would awaken in the night with the urge to arise and read. This I did, for I was finding a deep, abiding satisfaction that I had never before experienced and "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding (Phil. 4:7). During this early period of study I was healed of the cigarette habit of fifteen years' standing.

At one time when I was preserving beets, a quart jar which had just been removed from the processing exploded. I was thinly clad, and I received the full impact of the scalding syrup. I quickly changed my clothing, removed the syrup with water, and asked my daughter to get our textbook, as the pain seemed great. She brought the book to me, and I opened it at random and started to read aloud these words on page 243: "The divine Love, which made harmless the poisonous viper, which delivered men from the boiling oil, from the fiery furnace, from the jaws of the lion, can heal the sick in every age and triumph over sin and death." I was instantaneously healed. All discoloration and pain left, and no scar remained.

Over two years ago I came home from church one Wednesday evening to find our daughter in bed suffering from pain and fear. She told me that she had been afraid to say anything sooner, but that her legs were aching terribly and she felt a dreadful soreness throughout her whole body. I became fearful also when I realized that the much-publicized poliomyelitis might be claiming admittance to our home, and I quickly went to the telephone and called a practitioner. Lovingly the practitioner told me to hold to the thought that in God "we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28). In searching my thinking, I realized that I had accepted this disease as a reality for my neighbor's children with the thought that I was grateful that I was a Christian Scientist. At the same time I read a testimony in one of our periodicals where someone had had a similar experience and she had realized that if she could accept discord for her neighbor, then it was possible for discord to be manifested in her experience. This greatly helped me to clear my thinking, and although the pain and soreness continued for about three days, the child was completely healed with no ill effects whatever.

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