Testimony of Healing October 18, 1952 Issue

For many years the testimonies...

Maude G. Robinson with contributions from Karl Werner Keferstein, Martha Coffer, Jess Coffer

For many years the testimonies appearing in our periodicals have given me much inspiration, and I should like to tell of three of the many healings which I have experienced through the teachings of Christian Science. The first occurred a number of years ago. I was in a very serious automobile accident; the brand-new car in which I was riding was completely demolished. My face was so badly cut that the thought was expressed that I would be disfigured for life. This was very frightening to me. However, after talking to a practitioner on the long-distance telephone, I decided not to have the cuts sewed and to depend entirely on God for my help. This was my first real stand in Christian Science. Fear and shock were quickly met, and the scars soon faded away as I began to grasp the truth that my real selfhood was not material and had never been in an accident; so there could be no aftereffects from that which really had never happened. On page 300 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy tells us, "The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real."

The second healing was of severe bilious attacks and headaches which kept me in bed for days at a time. As they became more frequent and severe I prayed earnestly in the words of the Psalmist (Ps. 139: 23, 24), "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Shortly after this, following one of the attacks, I was led to look up the word bile in the dictionary. The definition which caught my attention was "ill-humor." I thought this could not possibly relate to me, for I believed that I was very good-humored. Although a member of my family had been indulging in social drinking, and this had annoyed me very much, I had arrived at the point where I could hold my tongue most of the time.

After some honest mental house cleaning I opened my Bible to the book of Matthew (15:11, 18) and read: "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth. ... Those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man." Irritation, resentment, and other wrong thoughts had to be brought to the surface and destroyed. I began to understand that mankind hungers and thirsts after righteousness, but that man is satisfied and complete, that he is upright, pure, and free. Also I reasoned that if all power belongs to God, good, then alcohol has no power either to make one crave it or to make one fear or hate it. The physical condition was very soon overcome, and later all desire for alcohol of any kind left the member of the family who had used it.

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