Testimony of Healing January 1, 1949 ISSUE

Words alone cannot express my...

Evelyn Payne

Words alone cannot express my gratitude for Christian Science and for our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, whose spiritual perception and unselfed love were great enough to give this marvelous truth to a needy world.

During the thirty-six years in which I have been a student of Christian Science I have had so many wonderful demonstrations that it would be impossible to tell of them all. My first healing was that of tonsillitis, from which I had suffered since I was a small child. This disease grew worse and the attacks more frequent as I grew older, until during my high school years the attacks sometimes lasted as long as ten days, leaving me weak and unable to work well, either mentally or physically. After a few treatments from a Christian Science practitioner, I was healed and never had another attack. I had greatly feared frequent common colds, but through my own understanding of Christian Science I had several instantaneous healings, and now for several years I have had no trouble whatever from that source.

The overcoming of a painful form of stomach trouble was one of my first happy experiences with the healing power of Christian Science. It would be hard to describe my gratitude when I realized that I had been permanently healed. I have also had instantaneous healings of sprains, cramps, burns, and a severe pain in my back which seemed unbearable.

A healing of influenza was wonderful to me. During the fall of 1918 my school was closed because of the so-called epidemic, and I went home to find all the family except my father in bed with the disease. One morning several days after my arrival I was suddenly stricken with all the symptoms of influenza. My first thought was, "What will my father do now, with me down, too?" But instantly came the angel message, "You are God's child, made in His image and likeness." I refused to sit down, but went about my work, declaring the truth out loud, singing hymns, and thanking God for His perfect creation, of which I and the whole household, yes, the whole world, were a part. Within an hour I realized that I had no more symptoms of the dread disease, but was entirely free. And within a short time every member of the household was up and about.

My husband, our son, and I have been guided, directed, and protected during long journeys and have been helped many times in financial affairs. I can honestly say that when I have applied the rules of Christian Science truthfully and honestly, it has met my every need.

I am grateful that our son has had the privilege of attending the Christian Science Sunday School during his high school days. He is a good student and has been greatly helped by his own understanding of Science during his duties overseas in the postwar period. The few times he has had to ask for help, he has been quickly relieved.

I am also grateful for membership in The Mother Church, for class instruction, for our association meetings, for the literature, which has always been of inestimable value to me, especially when I have been where I could not attend church or be with other students, for the thousands of loyal, alert, and unselfed practitioners, and for every activity of our great movement.— (Mrs.) Evelyn Payne, Kent, Washington.

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