Christian
Science Testimony
ABNORMAL
GROWTH HEALED
For
a long time I have wanted to express my gratitude through
the periodicals for a healing I experienced about seven
years ago, and more especially for the way in which the
healing came about. For quite four years I was conscious of
a small, hard lump on my body, but did not bother about it
as long as it did not pain me; but when at times the pain
became very acute, I made on each of these occasions good
resolutions to do good systematic mental work for myself to
uncover and destroy whatever claimed to be manifesting
itself so discordantly. On each occasion, however, as the
pain was overcome, my good resolution went with it. The
consequence was that a time came when the lump grew rapidly
larger, very tender to the touch, and extremely painful.
Fear grew in proportion. I felt cornered, as it were, and
was compelled to renew my resolution, and this time to keep
it. On page 255 of "Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says, "As mortals drop off their
mental swaddling-clothes, thought expands into expression."
Those two lines helped me more than any others when I first
took up the study of Christian Science, and again they came
to my aid. I once more set out to realize the truth for
myself to the best of my understanding. I refrained from
looking at or feeling this lump; and whenever I became
conscious of it and fear surged in, I stood firm in the
realization that nothing exists but God and His universe,
peopled with His ideas, all governed and controlled by His
spiritual law, all as perfect as the Father, now. I must
have worked on these lines about ten days, never once
allowing fear to get the upper hand. In about a fortnight,
on going to bed one night, I found there was nothing left to
work for. The abnormal growth had faded out of
consciousness, and the healing was complete. I cannot begin
to express the gratitude I felt for such a sure proof of the
efficacy of persistent, honest right thinking.
For
all the help Christian Science has been to me, and for the
untiring efforts of our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, in showing
us how to make the teachings of the Bible practical today, I
am truly grateful.
Ada Carr
Bromley, Kent, England
"Testimonies of
Healing"
Christian Science
Sentinel, May 30, 1925
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