Testimony of Healing February 19, 1921 Issue

"Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm...

Clarissa Sperry Getten with contributions from Gertrude Getten Capron, Albert S. Getten

"Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself," Mrs. Eddy says on page 385 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." I have proved this statement to be true, as well as many others in the Christian Science textbook. My gratitude for Christian Science and for the periodicals which Mrs. Eddy established, grows greater every day, and I wish to express it publicly.

Some time ago our daughter's husband passed on during the epidemic of influenza, leaving her alone with her baby boy. She came home to live and it became my duty to care for the baby while my daughter took up her former work in an office. I had been trying to work out of a stubborn sense of physical discord for some time, and before this happened I would have said it was impossible to undertake the care of a baby besides doing the general housework for my family. My first thought was the passage just quoted, and with it came gratitude for Christian Science, and the loving thought that I was happy to accept the additional task. This thought has been with me constantly for the last six months, and I can truthfully say that my health is better, our home very harmonious, the sunshine of Truth always shining, and Christian Science has met every problem that comes up with the care of a young child. He is a sunny, happy dispositioned boy.

Christian Science came to me in the year 1901, and since that time it has been my only physician. I have seen financial needs met, and many physical healings, also those of grief, fear, worry, and anxiety. Our son was healed of typhoid fever when he was eleven years old and of appendicitis when he grew to manhood. When he left for France in 1918, Christian Science was our source of comfort, and his protection. Daily it becomes clearer to me that the only change there is, is that from error to Truth, from sickness to health, from ignorance to intelligence, from inertia to right activity.

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