Testimony of Healing September 27, 1958 Issue

In Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy...

K. Leah Danforth

In Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 382), "One whom I rescued from seeming spiritual oblivion, in which the sense had engulfed him, wrote to me: 'I should have died, but for the glorious Principle you teach,—supporting the power of Mind over the body and showing me the nothingness of the so-called pleasures and pains of sense.'"

I too should have died four years ago if it had not been for the healing power of Christian Science. The condition was never diagnosed, but had every appearance of what would probably be called an acute heart ailment and dropsy. When I perceived and understood the erroneous condition to be not physical but mental and that man is the perfect reflection of God, the disease abated and then vanished into its native nothingness.

The healing was not instantaneous, but over a considerable period of time incisions appeared in my legs and the water drained off—the result of mental surgery effected through Christian Science treatment alone. I am indeed grateful for this healing, evidencing the spiritual power of divine Science. However, appreciation of the physical healing pales before my gratitude for an ever clearer understanding and perception of man's and, consequently, of my own present perfection as the image and likeness of our loving Father-Mother, God.

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