Testimony of Healing February 9, 1957 Issue

It has been said that "man's extremity...

Ellen Coble

It has been said that "man's extremity is God's opportunity." This statement was proved true in my experience a number of years ago when I had a nervous breakdown. I spent several weeks in a hospital and another few weeks at home under a doctor's care. He gave me sedatives several times a day, but to no avail, and I soon became discouraged.

I could not read newspapers or books without being depressed. Then one day a copy of The Christian Science Monitor was mailed to me. I read every page and suddenly realized that instead of being depressed, I felt uplifted. Desperately I reached out to God for guidance, and soon afterwards I was led to a Christian Science practitioner. After my first visit I came home resolved to place full reliance on God, and I emptied the medicine chest. In a very short time I was completely healed of the nervous difficulty through the kind help of the practitioner. This healing served as a big steppingstone on my journey Spiritward.

A year later I experienced the healing of grief at the passing of my mother. God's promise (Isa. 66:13), "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you," was fulfilled. Less than two years later we had to give up our home. Again I was sustained by the truth that frees, and through it I gained a truer sense of home. The Bible assures us (II Cor. 5:1), "We have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens"; and Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health (p. 254), "Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God." It was indeed a blessing that Christian Science had come into my life.