Testimony of Healing August 14, 1971 Issue

I have much to be grateful for because my mother was a sincere...

Doris Storey

I have much to be grateful for because my mother was a sincere Christian and a lover of her Bible, which she also taught me to love. When I was a baby, I became very ill and was given up by the doctors. My mother turned to her Bible and in later years often told me that she opened it at random and the words "I will come and heal him" (Matt. 8:7) stood out to her as if magnified. Christian Science was not known by her at the time. She heard of an herb doctor, and I was taken to him. I improved but was never strong.

Many years later I had a breakdown, and the doctor said the digestive system was badly affected and nothing could be done for me. I had diarrhea for two years. My mother by this time had become interested in Christian Science and had experienced a healing. To please her I went to the services in a Church of Christ, Scientist, not expecting a healing. We knew nothing of practitioners, and continued reading the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly, and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. To my surprise, I was feeling better. One severe attack came, and Mother asked me what I was going to do. I had no medicine available, and I said I would trust Christian Science. It was quite a while before I got the complete healing, but I did have complete freedom finally. I was greatly helped by the account in Science and Health telling of a person who was healed of dyspepsia. Mrs. Eddy's words about the person applied to me after my healing (p. 221), "But he never enjoyed his food as he had imagined he would when, still the slave of matter, he thought of the flesh-pots of Egypt, feeling childhood's hunger and undisciplined by self-denial and divine Science."

A few years ago I was enabled to take class instruction, which to me was a beautiful further unfoldment of what I already understood. During this period I had at times a great sense of weariness. My lifelong friend had passed on suddenly just before, and we had acquired a lovely house together. For a time this seemed in jeopardy, but with the loving help of a relative it was again put on a sound basis. However, the attacks of weariness still continued, and one day I was looking through my class notes and was surprised to recall that this sense of weariness had been in evidence then, and still was not healed.

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