Testimony of Healing June 19, 1971 Issue

Many years ago I was working in an office where there was...

Elizabeth H. Feader

Many years ago I was working in an office where there was much discord. Domination and self-importance were much in evidence. This aroused in me antagonism and self-will. Eventually I became ill with a very severe disability in the form of rheumatism.

As a student of Christian Science, I realized that my thought needed to be corrected, that I must not harbor thoughts of resentment and anger toward the person involved. But how to overcome these thoughts presented a problem. I tried with willpower to express more love, but that did not work, since I was trying to love a person who seemed to me to be very unlovable. Then after much suffering I was forced to rise higher in thought, to see not only myself as an idea of Love but to see my neighbor also in this light. I saw that in the all-presence of infinite Love there never was nor could be anyone unlovely or unlovable, and I endeavored to correct every wrong thought.

As I reasoned along this line, the suffering and inflammation abated, and as the swelling went down I noticed hard lumps on my ankles. The thought came, "They are as hard as adamant." Then I remembered the passage in Science and Health where Mrs. Eddy says (p. 242), "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,— self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death." And I thought, "That is just what has happened. As divine Love has dissolved the adamant of error, the body has corresponded with normal health." And after a few weeks the healing was complete. All evidence of the lumps was removed.

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