Testimony of Healing June 5, 1978 Issue

Growing up as a regular pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School,...

Susan Newbold Smith with contributions from Philip L. Smith

Growing up as a regular pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School, I had heard many times that God is Life. But I did not understand the wonderful truth of this statement until a healing of our daughter when she was three years old.

Our daughter was an extremely active child, but one day she woke from a nap of several hours and seemed to be having great difficulty breathing. We held her throughout the night, continuously declaring aloud the truth of her identity as God's idea, but the child appeared to be passing on. Being quite overcome with fear, we telephoned a Christian Science practitioner in the United States for assistance. (We were living in an overseas country at the time.) He was very loving and helpful but recommended that we call a practitioner in the city where we were living—one who could work closely with the child. We took his recommendation.

I will never forget this practitioner's first words to me after I had finished my description of the child's condition. "You are not afraid, are you?" I realized at this moment the ridiculousness of fear in light of the truth that God was the child's Father and Mother, who was loving and protecting her. She pointed out that the so-called effects of fear could be dissolved because God's love for the child was supreme while fear was impotent.

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