A dear friend, apparently on the point of passing on while...

Miriam E. Savory

A dear friend, apparently on the point of passing on while under medical treatment, turned to Christian Science; and it was the wonderful benefit which she received that aroused my deep interest in the subject. Another friend, who had witnessed this same case, began to study at about the same time (early in 1918); and now, neither of us would know how to get along without this beautiful religion.

While I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing, many healings have been experienced. A throat trouble of some twenty years' standing disappeared; fear of disease, which had made me very wretched on many occasions, was overcome; a case of mumps yielded to Christian Science treatment in a very few days; and numberless other difficulties have been met and overcome, sometimes through the help of a loving practitioner, and often through my own understanding.

I should like to mention a healing which took place when I was very young in Science. With a friend I was staying in a hotel about a hundred miles from home. The last evening of our stay, I began to feel very ill. Ptomaine poisoning seemed in evidence, with much pain and nausea. My friend was not a Christian Scientist; but after asking if she could do anything for me she very considerately let me alone, and I worked as best I knew. To please a member of my family, I had put in my suitcase when leaving home a bottle of tablets supposed to be good for indigestion, and error kept reminding me that I might try one of these. That suggestion was finally overcome and, later, I felt much better and got some sleep. We were to take the one-hundred-mile train trip next day, and evidently I let a little fear creep in, for next morning I was still pretty much under the weather. However, I ate a little breakfast, and shortly afterwards I suddenly realized that I was healed. At the proper time I was able to take my train and make the journey home, for which I was deeply grateful.

The other healing was of a badly wrenched ankle, in the fall of 1924. The state election was near at hand, and a group of us were working hard for the election of the one who, we felt, would be a good governor. I had called at a house to remind the lady there that it was registration day, and on leaving the piazza to cross the leaf-strewn yard, stepped into a hole which was hidden, wrenching my ankle severely. The pain was intense, and my first thought was that I could not stand; my second, that I would be out of political work for that election. Then, almost as if the words were spoken, came the thought: You claim to be a Christian Scientist; if you are, now prove it! No one had seen my fall, and I began to walk down the street, managing to do so without limping, declaring the truth as I went. At the hall was a member of my family, and the thought came that I could get carried home in the car from there. To do so, however, would be to give my reason, and that would give me not only my own fear but another's to meet; so I went on to call at the other end of the street, as I was supposed to do, and later walked home. Getting out the Bible and my copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I finished the lesson, which I had not completed earlier in the day. That evening I attended an important committee meeting and made another call, and no one noticed anything wrong. That night the pain seemed pretty severe; early in the morning I read the lesson for that week (the day was Sunday) and also the lesson for the next week, and wrote a letter to a practitioner, which was never sent, however, as the ankle improved so rapidly that by night the pain was nearly gone. The swelling went down, and the discoloration soon afterward disappeared. I have always been especially grateful for this healing, as I was not kept for a single moment from the work which seemed to be mine to do.

I realize that my understanding is still small, but without what I have I would not know how to go on. It is such a comfort, when discouragement tries to creep in, to remember, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 494 of Science and Health, that "divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."

I am very grateful for the authorized Christian Science literature, which is so helpful to those of us situated where there are no Christian Science services, and also grateful for membership in The Mother Church. To the loving practitioner who has helped me meet many forms of error I am most grateful, as well as to other Science friends whose understanding of Truth has helped so much to show me the way. I hope, as the years go by, to grow in understanding, and to demonstrate more and more of the truth which Christ Jesus taught so beautifully, and which our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, has made available to us through her loving demonstration of it.

(Miss)Miriam E. Savory, Warner, New Hampshire.

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