Testimony of Healing January 2, 1960 ISSUE

Early in my experience in Christian Science...

Estelle Knight

Early in my experience in Christian Science I was in great mental darkness. For many weeks I entered a Christian Science Reading Room every day in tears. Each Sunday in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, as I opened the Christian Science Hymnal, I would always turn to Hymn No. 200, the first verse of which reads.

O daughter of Zion, awake from thy sadness;
Awake, for thy foes shall oppress thee no more;
And bright o'er thy hills dawns the daystar of gladness;
Arise, for the night of thy sorrow is o'er.

I was healed of the deeply depressed feeling when one Sunday I heard this verse from Isaiah read (42:16 ): "I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them." As the last words were read, a ray of sunlight penetrated the dark clouds and shone across my shoulders through a nearby window. At that very moment the mesmerism of mental darkness was dispelled, and I was free.

About two years ago I had what appeared to be a heart attack. My young daughter and a Christian Science practitioner prayerfully supported me during most of the night. At midnight I awakened, and these words of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, came to my thought: "In Christian Science the midnight hour will always be the bridal hour, until 'no night is there'" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 276 ), and, "'Arise from your false consciousness into the true sense of Love, and behold the Lamb's wife,—Love wedded to its own spiritual idea'" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 575 ).

I fell sound asleep, and joy did come in the morning. I awakened with these words going through my thought: "The wintry blasts of earth may uproot the flowers of affection, and scatter them to the winds; but this severance of fleshly ties serves to unite thought more closely to God, for Love supports the struggling heart until it ceases to sigh over the world and begins to unfold its wings for heaven" (ibid., p. 57). I had indeed touched the hem of Christ's garment. I was completely healed and am now gainfully employed.

I am grateful for this healing experience and for many others which I have had. My gratitude goes out to the consecrated workers who can always be reached when needed. My prayer is that I too may live so that I may bless mankind.—(Mrs.) Estelle Knight, Chicago, Illinois.

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