Testimony of Healing December 9, 1972 Issue

"I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord."...

Mary Martin Larsen with contributions from Betty Wolfe Hagerman, Clifford B. Hagerman

"I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord." This verse from Psalms (118:17) was a promise and a fulfillment for a period of more than four years before my complete freedom from malignant disease was realized. Although I endeavored to the best of my ability to place full reliance on Truth, it was a very long time before the faithful, persistent, prayerful effort of a deeply consecrated Christian Science practitioner received any real response in my consciousness.

It was never a temptation to me to seek a medical diagnosis because for many years I have had an absolute conviction, based upon healing proofs, that what God in divine Science cannot do, cannot be done. A degree of faith in matter was long ago exploded for me. I saw that actually there is no matter to heal, only thought to be transformed and awakened to reality. One definition I found of the word "malignant" in Webster is, "rebellious against God or against a government." I came to perceive the fact that malignancy has no operative force. I had a desire to understand Truth or a desire for Truth, but my great need was to grasp the spiritual sense of Truth and to live it.

I clung to the fact Mary Baker Eddy points up (No and Yes, pp. 24, 25): "There was never a moment in which evil was real. This great fact concerning all error brings with it another and more glorious truth, that good is supreme. As there is none beside Him, and He is all good, there can be no evil. Simply uttering this great thought is not enough! We must live it, until God becomes the All and Only of our being."

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