Testimony of Healing November 27, 1954 Issue

For many years I have enjoyed...

Elsie Ellsworth Sheehy

For many years I have enjoyed benefits from reading the testimonies given by others, and now I wish to give one. About eleven years ago I discovered a bald place about the size of a silver dollar on the top of my head. I had been a student of Christian Science for about thirty years; so I naturally turned to God for guidance. I was led to read a testimony in the Sentinel of July 13, 1935, which related that baldness had been overcome when the testifier pondered the words of the Bible (Luke 12:7), "Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered." That not only comforted me, but made me realize that what seemed to be true in my case was not true of the man of God's creating, therefore in reality not true of me. I rejoiced and was at peace. Very soon new hair started to grow abundantly, but it was snow white! Of course that looked odd, as the rest of my hair was brown. However, I humbly thanked God for the hair.

Some months later I read a testimony in The Christian Science Journal of May, 1942, about a woman who was an albino and was healed by this statement on page 301 of the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy: "As God is substance and man is the divine image and likeness, man should wish for, and in reality has, only the substance of good, the substance of Spirit, not matter." Her complexion changed, and her eyes, which had been pink since birth, changed to blue.

I reasoned that since color is an idea of divine Mind I could have all I needed of it. As the hair continued to grow, it came in the same color as the rest of my hair, much to the amazement of everyone who noticed it; and little by little I had the white hair cut off.

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