Testimony of Healing January 17, 1920 Issue

Christian Science began to be an interest in our home...

Gladys Georgeson Ballantine

Christian Science began to be an interest in our home after the healing of a friend. For a number of years I enjoyed the daily reading and the services without much need for physical help, and practically without real insight into the spirituality of this teaching; simply, after some argument, I accepted Christian Science as the truth, and contentedly drifted along without serious study or application. Never having had conscious fear of illness to overcome, or lack of faith in God, I did not attach enough value to physical healing. Medicines, which had had little use, were easily forgotten, and Christian Science help when slight ailments occasionally troubled my children, was accepted, and even taken for granted.

In February, 1916, my little girl became ill with inflammatory rheumatism, and was healed instantly of the pain and inflammation. Later, when she had returned to school, nervousness in an extreme form made itself manifest. Treatment was asked for from a practitioner, and a very quick and permanent healing resulted. The child had lost the use of her left arm, but three weeks after this condition was noticed she resumed her music lessons, which have been uninterrupted since, and a usual amount of practice has been done. The same child has taken a foremost place in gymnastics, and has been debarred from no game or exercise in the last three years and a half.

The advantage of the Christian Science Sunday school for my children, and the privilege for myself of teaching there, are among the many blessings for which I am grateful. I feel that we can never be thankful enough for the change Christian Science has made in our outlook on life, and for the many proofs of divine care which have followed the application of the truth to every kind of human experience.—(Mrs.) Gladys Georgeson Ballantine, Victoria, B. C., Canada.

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