Testimony of Healing February 11, 1922 Issue

Twelve years ago I began the study of Christian Science...

Pearl B. Harden with contributions from William Russell Harden

Twelve years ago I began the study of Christian Science and had been studying only a few months when I was able to lay aside glasses which I had worn for four years. Christian Science has since healed me in thirty-six hours of a severe attack of influenza, when my second baby was only a week old. Christian Science has been a wonderful aid in the handling of our two children through their infancy and early childhood. Last summer our little three-year-old son ran away from home. I did not know which street or which direction he had taken but by realizing the truth as taught in Christian Science I was rightly led, and after walking five blocks met him safe and sound in the company of a lady who said she rescued him from the middle of one of the busy streets of our city. She said that at the moment of the rescue four automobiles and two trains all seemed to be coming together at the point where the child was standing.

At about that same time our little daughter, then eighteen months old, had formed the habit of putting paper and other small articles up her nose. I considered this habit of no consequence and paid no attention to it until one day I took the child to visit a friend. The friend noticed the condition and declared it to be a very serious thing. I was immediately filled with fear and evidently did not correct my fear with a right understanding of God, for the next day when I returned home with the child her breathing indicated that something invisible was lodged in her nose. She did not seem to suffer, however, so I dismissed the matter from my thoughts, thinking perhaps she had only a slight cold. After several months had passed, the nose began to have a very disagreeable odor. Then the condition seemed serious and I realized the truth about it as best I knew. After a short time something white appeared far up one of the nostrils and seemed to stay in that one place. I could not remove it by material means and fear seemed to master me, so I called on a practitioner for help. The white object, which was soon found to be a large cherry seed, then began moving gradually downward, and on the sixth day after the practitioner was called it was easily removed. Following the removal of the seed there was no bad odor and no bad effect whatever. This demonstration occurred in October, about three months after the cherry season.

We have had in our home many other wonderful proofs of the healing and protecting power of divine Love, and for all these blessings I am indeed grateful.

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