Testimony of Healing March 6, 1954 Issue

Many years ago it became apparent...

Elinor W. Steward

Many years ago it became apparent to me that from a material standpoint there were no answers to the questions of life. Mrs. Eddy expresses it this way (Science and Health, p. 70): "Mortal existence is an enigma." I am very grateful that Christian Science presents through spiritual sense an understanding of the true man and his reason for being. The study of this Science has given me an understanding of God and my own true being and answered questions that had before appeared inexplicable. This fact has meant more to me than anything else, although other members of my family and I have many times been healed of physical ailments and have seen other proofs of God's allness and man's perfection. I have been completely healed of influenza in less than two days' time and have had instantaneous healings of a glandular infection and of a severe headache.

Another instantaneous healing I had stands out in my memory, because it brought with it an overwhelming sense of God's power and of the truth of man which Christian Science teaches. A number of years ago I was attacked by what I believe would have been diagnosed as an incipient stroke of apoplexy. As I lay on my bed I kept thinking over and over: "I just can't understand why this has attacked me. I have been feeling perfectly well. I just can't understand it." All of a sudden it came to me that Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 563), "But why should we stand aghast at nothingness?" With this mental acknowledgment of error's nothingness I remembered a sentence from Science and Health that was in the current Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly (p. 555): "Creation rests on a spiritual basis." Here I was, I told myself, standing aghast at a mortal mind belief that was claiming to have attacked a mortal person. And what had that to do with my real selfhood? I knew that I was actually spiritual and perfect and that I always had been completely outside the reach of mortal mind's lies.

In about half an hour I was fully recovered and normal. I have been very grateful for this healing, and I recall it sometimes when I am tempted to believe that inharmony in some form can get inside God's kingdom, which is infinite and in which man really dwells.

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