Testimony of Healing March 20, 1948 Issue

It is with a sincere sense of gratitude...

Blanche M. Davis

It is with a sincere sense of gratitude to God that I wish to offer my testimony, in the hope that it will give encouragement to someone who may also be seeking healing.

I was never religiously inclined, but fourteen years ago I was in great need and my whole desire was to learn something about God. I was suffering from many physical difficulties, among which was cancer with its effects. Opiates had been administered for many months, and the result was partial blindness. I was not able to read anything. Then came the greatest day of my life. The physician had just been to visit me and had told my husband that I could not possibly live for more than forty-eight hours. In our great distress we remembered a friend who we knew was a Christian Science practitioner. She was sent for and came immediately, and from the moment treatment began I lost all desire for opiates. When there was a sense of pain the practitioner was called, and some days we called three or four times, both day and night. Help was received each time.

Since I was unable to read, my husband had to read to me. Mary Baker Eddy's words from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (Pref., p. xi) stood out to me as an anchor of hope and encouragement: "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural." I seemed to understand this, and with the understanding came a great sense of hope and gratitude.

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