HEALINGS PERFORMED BY MRS. EDDY:

[NOTE: Mrs. Eddy's countless healings are recorded in her other writings,

of testimonies of healings received by those who read early editions of her book.]

"I was called to visit Mr. Clark in Lynn, who had been confined to his bed six months
with hip-disease, caused by a fall upon a wooden spike when quite a boy. On entering
the house I met his physician, who said that the patient was dying. The physician had
just probed the ulcer on the hip, and said the bone was carious for several inches. He
even showed me the probe, which had on it the evidence of this condition of the bone.
The doctor went out. Mr. Clark lay with his eyes fixed and sightless. The dew of death
was on his brow. I went to his bedside. In a few moments his face changed; its death-
pallor gave place to a natural hue. The eyelids closed gently and the breathing became
natural; he was asleep. In about ten minutes he opened his eyes and said: 'I feel like a
new man. My suffering is all gone.' It was between three and four o'clock in the
afternoon when this took place.

"I told him to rise, dress himself, and take supper with his family. He did so. The next
day I saw him in the yard. Since then I have not seen him, but am informed that he
went to work in two weeks. The discharge from the sore stopped, and the sore was
healed. The diseased condition had continued there ever since the injury was received
in boyhood.

"Since his recovery I have been informed that his physician claims to have cured him,
and that his mother has been threatened with incarceration in an insane asylum for
saying: 'It was none other than God and that woman who healed him.' I cannot attest
the truth of that report, but what I saw and did for that man, and what his physician
said of the case, occurred just as I have narrated.

"It has been demonstrated to me that Life is God and that the might of omnipotent
Spirit shares not its strength with matter or with human will. Reviewing this brief
experience, I cannot fail to discern the coincidence of the spiritual idea of man with
the divine Mind. (192-194)

"A woman, whom I cured of consumption, always breathed with great difficulty
when the wind was from the east. I sat silently by her side a few moments. Her
breath came gently. The inspirations were deep and natural. I then requested her to
look at the weather-vane. She looked and saw that it pointed due east. The wind
had not changed, but her thought of it had and so her difficulty in breathing had gone.
The wind had not produced the difficulty. My metaphysical treatment changed the
action of her belief on the lungs, and she never suffered again from east winds, but
was restored to health." (184-185)

"A case of convulsions, produced by indigestion, came under my observation. In
her belief the woman had chronic liver-complaint, and was then suffering from a
complication of symptoms connected with this belief. I cured her in a few minutes.
One instant she spoke despairingly of herself. The next minute she said, 'My food is
all digested, and I should like something more to eat.'" (389-390)

"One whom I rescued from seeming spiritual oblivion, in which the senses had
engulfed him, wrote to me: 'I should have died, but for the glorious Principle you
teach, -- supporting the power of Mind over the body and showing me the nothing-
ness of the so-called pleasures and pains of sense. The treatises I had read and the
medicines I had taken only abandoned me to more hopeless suffering and despair.
Adherence to hygiene was useless. Mortal mind needed to be set right. The ailment
was not bodily, but mental, and I was cured when I learned my way in Christian
Science.'" (382)

 

 

"The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all

things are possible to God, -- a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love.

Regardless of what another may say or think on this subject, I speak from experience.

Prayer, watching, and working, combined with self-immolation, are God's gracious

means for accomplishing whatever has been successfully done for the Christian-

ization and health of mankind."  (1)

 

"Whenever an aggravation of symptoms has occurred through mental chemicaliza-

tion, I have seen the mental signs, assuring me that danger was over, before the

patient felt the change; and I have said to the patient, 'You are healed,' -- sometimes

to his discomfiture, when he was incredulous. But it always came about as I had

foretold."  (169)

 

"Human mind produces what is termed organic disease as certainly as it produces

hysteria, and it must relinquish all its errors, sicknesses, and sins. I have demon-

strated this beyond all cavil. The evidence of divine Mind's healing power and

absolute control is to me as certain as the evidence of my own existence."  (177)

 

"When numbers have been divided according to a fixed rule, the quotient is not

more unquestionable than the scientific tests I have made of the effects of truth

upon the sick."  (233)

 

"To reduce inflammation, dissolve a tumor, or cure organic disease, I have found

divine Truth more potent than all lower remedies. And why not, since Mind, God,

is the source and condition of all existence?"  (180-181)

 

"I have discerned disease in the human mind, and recognized the patient's fear of it,

months before the so-called disease made its appearance in the body. Disease being

a belief, a latent illusion of mortal mind, the sensation would not appear if the error

of belief was met and destroyed by truth."  (168)

 

"Let any clergyman try to cure his friends by their faith in him. Will that faith heal

them? Yet Scientists will take the same cases, and cures will follow.  Is this

because the patients have more faith in the Scientist than in their pastor? I have

healed infidels whose only objection to this method was, that I as a Christian

Scientist believed in the Holy Spirit, while they, the patients, did not."  (359)

 

"My first discovery in the student's practice was this: If the student silently called

the disease by name, when he argued against it, as a general rule the body would

respond more quickly, -- just as a person replies more readily when his name is

spoken; but this was because the student was not perfectly attuned to divine

Science, and needed the arguments of truth for reminders. If Spirit or the power

of divine Love bear witness to the truth, this is the ultimatum, the scientific way,

and the healing is instantaneous."  (411)

 

"Working out the rules of Science in practice, the author has restored health in

cases of both acute and chronic disease in their severest forms. Secretions have

been changed, the structure has been renewed, shortened limbs have been

elongated, ankylosed joints have been made supple, and carious bones have been

restored to healthy conditions. I have restored what is called the lost substance of

lungs, and healthy organizations have been established where disease was organic.

Christian Science heals organic disease as surely as it heals what is called

functional, for it requires only a fuller understanding of the divine Principle of

Christian Science to demonstrate the higher rule."  (162)

 

"A physician of the old school remarked with great gravity: 'We know that mind

affects the body somewhat, and advise our patients to be hopeful and cheerful and

to take as little medicine as possible; but mind can never cure organic difficulties.'

The logic is lame, and facts contradict it. The author has cured what is termed

organic disease as readily as she has cured purely functional disease, and with no

power but the divine Mind."  (149)

 

"It is easier to cure the most malignant disease than it is to cure sin. The author

has raised up the dying, partly because they were willing to be restored, while

she has struggled long, and perhaps in vain, to lift a student out of a chronic

sin."  (373)

 

"The author never knew a patient who did not recover when the belief of the

disease had gone." (377)

 

"So long as mortals declare that certain states of the atmosphere produce catarrh,

fever, rheumatism, or consumption, those effects will follow, -- not because of

the climate, but on account of the belief. The author has in too many instances

healed disease through the action of Truth on the minds of mortals, and the

corresponding effects of Truth on the body, not to know that this is so."  (386)

 

"Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better

for Christian Scientists to leave surgery and the adjustment of broken bones and

dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while the mental healer confines himself

chiefly to mental reconstruction and to the prevention of inflammation.  Christian

Science is always the most skilful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing

which will be last acknowledged. However, it is but just to say that the author has

already in her possession well-authenticated records of the cure, by herself and her

students through mental surgery alone, of broken bones, dislocated joints, and

spinal vertebrae. (401-402)

 

"The author has healed hopeless organic disease, and raised the dying to life and

health through the understanding of God as the only Life. It is a sin to believe that

aught can overpower omnipotent and eternal Life, and this Life must be brought to

light by the understanding that there is no death, as well as by other graces of

Spirit. We must begin, however, with the more simple demonstrations of control,

and the sooner we begin the better. The final demonstration takes time for its

accomplishment."  (428-429)

 

"A thorough perusal of the author's publications heals sickness. If patients sometimes

seem worse while reading this book, the change may either arise from the alarm of

the physician, or it may mark the crisis of the disease.  Perseverance in the perusal

of the book has generally completely healed such cases."  (446)

 

"The author's own observations of the workings of animal magnetism convince her

that it is not  a remedial agent, and that its effects upon those who practise it, and

upon their subjects who do not resist it, lead to moral and to physical death."  (101)

 

"Late in the nineteenth century I demonstrated the divine rules of Christian Science.

They were submitted to the broadest practical test, and everywhere, when honestly

applied under circumstances where demonstration was humanly possible, this

Science showed that Truth had lost none of its divine and healing efficacy, even

though centuries had passed away since Jesus practised these rules on the hills of

Judaea and in the valleys of Galilee."  (147)