Testimony of Healing January 9, 1960 ISSUE

Before coming into Christian Science,...

Mildred K. Eyler

Before coming into Christian Science, I had gone every few months to a chiropodist to have calluses removed from the balls of my feet. The chiropodist said that they were caused by fallen metatarsal arches, and I wore corrective shoes with metatarsal pads. The relief from having the calluses cut off lasted perhaps two weeks.

After studying Science for a while, I stopped going to the doctor, although my feet were painful, especially when I was going downstairs or crossing a rough street.

The Christian Science practitioner whom I called on for help said, "Let us build up our arch of Principle, and let the seven synonyms for God that Mrs. Eddy gives us stand for that arch." She spoke of the keystone of an arch and said that the keystone of our spiritual arch could be God, divine Principle. She worked metaphysically only a short time. I went about my housework, dwelling on the seven synonyms for God and trying to get a better understanding of man as expressing the qualities of these synonyms.

One day I suddenly realized that I had not thought of my feet for some time, and I found that I was completely free of the trouble. I have never worn a special shoe since this healing, and my feet have remained comfortable.

More recently a state patrolman came to our home and told me that the younger of our two sons, who was nearly twenty and in the Navy, had been fatally injured in an automobile accident. Immediately I grasped somewhat the ever-presence of the healing Christ and knew with conviction that it was necessary and possible for me to hold fast to my very highest concept of the truth that I had been learning through Christian Science.

This conviction stayed with me every moment and enabled me to carry on, to glimpse the eternality of Life and its never-ceasing harmony, and to help others in their despair. I realized to some extent the truth of Christ Jesus' promise, "Your joy no man taketh from you" (John 16:22 ).

I attended church, sang the hymns, and depended on another of our Master's promises, "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall he comforted"(Matt. 5:4 ). I realized that if a sense of grief were permitted to dominate, it would shut out gratitude and keep me wrapped in self-centered sadness.

Christian Science enabled me to hold to what God knows of our eternal safety. Each time a thought of separation or deprivation came to me, the assurance that our son could never for an instant be separated from or deprived of the blessings of his Maker helped me. I was able to a great extent to accept the fact that even at the moment of impact his true selfhood was completely protected and was in the care of his Father-Mother God. Each time a sad thought tried to present itself, I attempted to let God "open...the windows of heaven, and pour...out a blessing" (Mal. 3:10 ).

The simple and illuminating truths of Christian Science that I had taught to small children in the Christian Science Sunday School flooded my thoughts. I saw that God gives us the courage that enables us to go on in a normal manner. When we live very near to God, He gives us the ability to solve every problem.

Mary Baker Eddy, our beloved Leader, says: "Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 149, 150 ).

I am deeply grateful for Christian Science and for the loving-kindness shown to our family at this time.—(Mrs.)Mildred K. Eyler, Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

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