Testimony of Healing January 1, 1955 ISSUE

When our religious periodicals...

Myrtle N. Williams

When our religious periodicals come to my home, the first thing I open to is the testimony section. Some time ago the realization came that if others were as reticent as I to tell of their blessings, there would be few testimonies. So I decided to enumerate some of my many blessings in a testimony for the periodicals.

About three years ago a friend asked me to drive with her to Florida over the Christmas holidays to put in order a home she had recently purchased there. I declared our freedom from danger as we drove and was most grateful to hear my friend remark on our arrival, "You know, I have made this trip a number of times, but this is the first time I have not seen an accident."

On the evening before our return I was helping her to hang drapes. The chair on which I was standing slipped from under me, and I came down on the floor with a thud. When I stood up I realized that something was wrong and later found that blood vessels in one thigh were ruptured.

My friend was not a Christian Scientist, and I did not want to alarm her, so I said nothing of my injury. It was almost midnight, we had no telephone, and we were about fifteen miles from the nearest town. I knew that I must prove for myself what I understood of Christian Science. Picking up a bit of handwork to cover my trembling from shock, I began to meet every argument of error with the truth. Within half an hour I was calm and assured that all was well. I slept well, arose the next morning free from pain and stiffness, and suffered no inconvenience. The physical picture was very ugly, but my clothing entirely covered it, and no one ever saw it but myself. I did not look at it again, for I thought, "I am declaring it to be nothing; and why should I look at nothing?" I do not know when the evidence of the injury disappeared. I only know that sometime later there was no indication of the accident ever having happened.

A number of years ago I was spending the week end with relatives in a small town on a main highway. On Saturday morning we decided to visit other relatives in a town on another highway, which diverged slightly from the first one. A country lane connected these two roads, and I used it for the first time that morning.

We spent a very happy day and started back about dusk. A misty drizzle had set in. but I knew that God was with us, and I started out without fear. However, some of the others began to speculate on the possibility of an accident. I was the only Scientist in the car, but I took my stand and lovingly but firmly replied: "We'll have no talk like that in this car. There never need be an accident."

I continued driving, mentally going over the Lesson-Sermon I had read that morning in the Christian Science Quarterly. Suddenly the country road we were on looked strange. There was a curve I did not recall from the morning trip, and I felt led to bring my car practically to a stop. As I did so, two cars going at high speed almost touched my front bumper. I realized then that I was at the entrance to the main highway. No warning was visible, but spiritual intuition had come to protect us all from harm. These are just a few of the many blessings that Christian Science has brought to me, and I am indeed humbly grateful.— (Miss) Myrtle N. Williams, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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