Testimony of Healing June 28, 1919 Issue

In obedience to the injunction by our dear Leader that...

Estelle Willard Dickey with contributions from Della L. Willard

In obedience to the injunction by our dear Leader that "testimony in regard to the healing of the sick is highly important" (Manual, Art. VIII, Sect. 24), my mother and I, with hearts full of love and gratitude for Christian Science, are sending our testimonies.

I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing but, as I see now, because I thought it would make me better and give me more materially. I therefore studied it earnestly not for the truth itself but for the loaves and fishes. Of course such an erroneous thought could not remain with honest study of the Bible and our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and I am most grateful that it was corrected.

The healings I have had of colds, severe bowel trouble, scarlet fever, and headache are a few of the many proofs I have had of God's allness. A skin disease of many years' standing is rapidly disappearing as my mental home is being cleared. Last winter my sister passed on, and it was then I was so very grateful for a knowledge of God and His creation. The following experience is given, thinking it may help some mother. In my desire not to use the human will in caring for our boy, I fell into the erroneous way of thinking that I would wait until he was older and I could reason with him. In this way I was creating in him a false desire for being rocked to sleep. When I first became awake to the situation, I wondered with consternation what I should do, for I could not put him down to "cry it out," as that certainly seemed to be wrong. Then came the healing thought of our never failing comfort and guide. I opened our textbook and read, "The true sense of being and its eternal perfection should appear now, even as it will hereafter" (p. 550). After correcting my thought of child, possession, and rest, I laid him down with the thought, "His arm encircles me, and mine, and all," as Mrs. Eddy says in her poem "Mother's Evening Prayer" (Poems, p. 4). Never since then has he had to be rocked. This taught me that if I expect obedience to Principle in our boy I must be obedient myself.

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