Testimony of Healing September 7, 1963 Issue

When I was eleven years old...

Ida F. Miller

When I was eleven years old my mother became interested in Christian Science, and I entered a Christian Science Sunday School, attending regularly until I was twenty. I have always been grateful for the firm foundation in the letter of Christian Science that I got from the Sunday School teaching, but it was not until I left school that I really began to appreciate and understand a little of the spirit of this Science. Then I began to study to learn the rules and how to apply them.

Often in this Science healings come through our study to gain increased understanding rather than through an effort on our part to overcome a material condition. This was my experience many years ago when I was healed of numerous warts on my right hand that had embarrassed me through my high school and college days. It seemed that the more I tried to overcome them and know the unreality of them, the more irritated they became and the larger they grew. Finally, one evening, when I was reading Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy for increased understanding, the light dawned.

On page 418 she says: "Speak the truth to every form of error. Tumors, ulcers, tubercles, inflammation, pain, deformed joints, are waking dream-shadows, dark images of mortal thought, which flee before the light of Truth." "Why," I thought, "if they are just 'dream-shadows, dark images of mortal thought,' there is no substance to them, and of course, they disappear with 'the light of Truth.'"

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