Testimony of Healing February 19, 1979 Issue

I decided to join the Church of Christ, Scientist, in appreciation...

Geraldine R. Wessel

I decided to join the Church of Christ, Scientist, in appreciation of its teachings. My desire for physical healing was secondary. I wanted to know more of God as the one Mind, all-loving divine Principle. I took this stand for church membership in the glare of family antagonism. The next day an abnormal internal growth was eliminated from my body. This was my first Christian Science healing. Disciplined study and faithful church work brought healings of grief, false responsibility, dispositional traits, and fear.

One time I was hemorrhaging. I phoned a Christian Science practitioner for help. The awareness of God as unceasing Love was so vivid that it was clear to me the condition was not real, that it was mortal illusion. I refused to believe the lie. It had never been part of my true nature as God's child. In a few hours the hemorrhaging ceased, and my body was functioning normally again.

In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy defines "heart" as "mortal feelings, motives, affections, joys, and sorrows" (p. 587). Several years ago I had symptoms of a heart seizure. I realized that in his healing work Christ Jesus had denied the belief of mortality and affirmed immortality to be the spiritual fact. Now so must I. During the next two hours the following statement became an effective shield for me, deflecting suggestions of fear and pain until they just faded away, never to return (ibid., p. 554): "There is no such thing as mortality, nor are there properly any mortal beings, because being is immortal, like Deity,—or, rather, being and Deity are inseparable."