Testimony of Healing October 14, 1967 Issue

The words of Job (23:3), "Oh that I knew where I might...

Kathleen O'Connor with contributions from Daisy B. Foottit

The words of Job (23:3), "Oh that I knew where I might find him!" epitomize my early longing to know God and find the real meaning of life. The church in which I was brought up and other religions I investigated, besides various physical sciences, failed to give logical answers to my many questions. Also I was heartbroken at all the evil and suffering in the world and my seeming helplessness to do anything about it.

It was during World War I while serving in the English equivalent of the W.A.A.C. that I first heard of Christian Science. When one is ready for this revelation, it would seem that God in His great love searches one out, for I was brought into daily contact with the only Christian Scientist, to my knowledge, in an isolated military camp of forty thousand service personnel. Imagine my joy on finding satisfying answers to my questions about God, life, man, and the universe! In Mrs. Eddy's writings I not only found the strong, irrefutable logic of pure metaphysical, or absolute, Science, but the deep compassion and tenderness of the healing Christ—the essence of the "pure religion and undefiled" (James 1:27) exemplified by Jesus and made practical in this age through Christian Science.

I had been subject to recurring attacks of malaria contracted during a visit to the Far East. Soon I was confronted with another attack. This time I opened Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and Health, at page 393 and read: "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man." I remember thinking that if God could heal sin He ought to be able to heal sickness. Absorbed in thinking this out, I forgot to take the usual medical remedy. To my amazement I found myself perfectly well in half an hour, and I have never had another attack.

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