Testimony of Healing October 21, 1905 Issue

The teaching of our text-book, that to divine Love there...

Harriet Mason

The teaching of our text-book, that to divine Love there is no sin, sickness, or death (Science and Health, p. 567), came to me as a message from God, when two of my children were attacked with scarlet fever. When they came in from school one night they complained of sickness. After I treated them, they seemed much better, but during the night other symptoms appeared, and in a few hours the fever was raging. We held firmly to God as our present help, and tried to see them as God's children, not ours. The eldest child's condition became very bad indeed during the second night, and fear seemed almost to overwhelm me for a while. At this time my husband came to the bedroom door, and I told him that fear would creep in. He answered me, "In Love is peace; I will pray with you; just know we have God with us." In a very short time I was helped to rise above the fear. The next morning I asked a Christian Science practitioner to help me; she told me that I must report the cases to the medical officer. We did so at once, and the officer came and pronounced it to be scarlet fever. He advised us to have the children removed to the sanitorium, as he thought the elder girl's condition serious. After some consideration we decided that they should go, and the doctor telephoned for the fever van to be brought at once, but for some reason it did not come that day, and we had the unspeakable joy of seeing the children improve in a most wonderful manner. That night they slept, and in the morning they were bright and happy. The doctor, having to pass our house on his rounds, called in, expecting that the children had gone to the sanitorium. He saw them and was much surprised to find them so very much better. The throat he was so anxious about, only the day before, was quite well. Here words utterly fail me to express what we felt of Love's power and presence. In the four days the children were healed. When the van did come they were sitting up in bed enjoying themselves, and told me they were "well and wanted a good breakfast," which was given' them. They asked why they should be sent away, now that they were healed. They were told that as Christian Scientists we must be law-abiding, and that divine Love controlled all. We received little letters from them almost every day, saying they were quite well and happy.

My gratitude cannot be expressed in words for the help received through this experience. It did not leave me where it found me; many valuable lessons were learned.

Mrs. Harriet Mason, Manchester, England.

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