When I was a child I received a blow that resulted in a broken...

Marie C. Pahl

When I was a child I received a blow that resulted in a broken eardrum and loss of hearing. I was told I would have to live with it, and I never did anything about it until I became a student of Christian Science.

During class instruction I learned that God is All-in-all, and man is His image and likeness, perfect, complete, and spiritual. I worked with Proverbs (20:12): "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them." Also this statement in the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 486): "Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and immortality are in Spirit and understanding, not in matter,—hence their permanence." These were helpful in convincing me that hearing was not lost for me.

As a member of a branch church I attended church services, at times without hearing the testimonies given or all the readings from the desk. This did not keep me from regular attendance. As my spiritual understanding grew through consecrated study, normal hearing slowly returned, until it was completely restored.

Another healing some years ago was instantaneous. I had studied the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly when I felt nauseated with influenza. I prayed the best I knew how at this time, and I kept silent to listen to God. I was spiritually uplifted from my study, in spite of pain. Then I recognized a beautiful ray of sunlight streaming through the window. Immediately I held to this statement in the textbook (p. 361): "As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, evenso God and man, Father and son, are one in being." I saw this spiritual unity so clearly that I arose immediately in the strength of God, perfectly free to sing praises of gratitude for Christian Science.

Another healing was of a wasp sting that became infected. Because it was quite painful, I called a Christian Science practitioner for help through prayer. She quoted Science and Health (p. 393): "Your body would suffer no more from tension or wounds than the trunk of a tree which you gash or the electric wire which you stretch, were it not for mortal mind." I studied with consecration, and in a few days a beautiful healing took place.

My gratitude for Christian Science has no bounds, also for Mrs. Eddy, who gave us this spiritual truth to practice and to glorify God.

(Mrs.) Marie C. Pahl
Red Bank, New Jersey

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