Testimony of Healing March 12, 1921 Issue

It is with a deep sense of gratitude for the many beautiful...

Ida Allyn

It is with a deep sense of gratitude for the many beautiful healings I have had mentally, physically, and financially, that I take this means of expressing in a very small way what the study and application of Christian Science have meant and are proving to me daily. Within the last year both the protective and healing power of this truth has been proved in my home.

Last February my eldest son was exposed to smallpox and contracted the disease. To conform with the law of our state, a physician was called and it was five days before the health officer and physician decided that it was smallpox, whereupon my two sons, my husband, and I were quarantined. Within five days after this, the disease was entirely healed and we were all released from quarantine, the placard being on the house only five days. No sign of this disease touched any other member of the family—and neither vaccination nor any other method of protection was used, but the application of the truth.

Another beautiful proof of the power of God was had when my younger son and his father were in the driveway pitching a baseball. My son was not looking when his father threw the ball, and it hit him in the forehead just over the left eye, making a large indentation in the skull. He has never had any other help than through Christian Science and has always been able to apply it and make many demonstrations for himself, so when this happened he did not even call me to help him, but came into the house and started to make his own demonstration, and I firmly believe he would have completed it had I not been called into the house to answer the telephone, as I was out in the front yard and did not know that anything had happened. When I came in I found my son walking up and down the room, holding his hand over his face, and repeating the Lord's Prayer, also declaring his perfection as God's child. When I asked what seemed to be the matter and he took his hand down and I could see his face, I was momentarily shocked, but immediately started to declare the truth with him. At this time his father called to me from the back porch, where he had been trying to clear his thought, to call upon a practitioner to treat the boy, and I did so to quiet our fear. One treatment was given and in about fifteen minutes I was sitting down with my son in my lap, reading Science and Health to him, at his request.

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