Testimony of Healing March 12, 1949 Issue

Many diseases yield to Science treatment

Mary Willson Allen

Since the Christ-light came into my life I have been strengthened, comforted, refreshed, and blessed. In Isaiah we read (9:2), "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." Whenever I read this verse, it recalls my first healing in Christian Science.

Before my healing I had become much depressed, weak, constantly filled with fear, existing mostly on a kind of cracker, or biscuit, made from the recipe of a famous physician, and I was suffering from five diseases. I was growing weaker every year and was fast drifting into invalidism. I had tried many remedies and employed many physicians, but in vain. So with little hope of being benefited, I went to see a Christian Science practitioner. "Man's extremity" proved to be "God's opportunity." One thing which helped me while at the practitioner's home was my love for and my knowledge of the Bible. When a little child, I learned long chapters and often recited them to my mother. As the practitioner quoted wonderful verses from the Word of God, a great relief and a loosening of the tension under which I had been suffering came to me.

On my way home I thought, "A great release has come to my head, and I am healed of those headaches." When I sat down to dinner, and my husband asked me what he should serve me, I replied: "Today I am going to eat the meat and vegetables which the family are going to eat. They will not hurt me." From that day to this, I have eaten everything with perfect comfort, seasoning my meals with gratitude.

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