Testimony of Healing January 24, 1925 Issue

“I wish to express my gratitude for the wonderful…”

Verba Hinkle with contributions from Bernard Joseph Hinkle

I wish to express my gratitude for the wonderful help Christian Science has been to me for over four years. I had been a member of the Baptist church for ten years before becoming interested in Christian Science; but I had a problem my church could not solve for me,—one of hate. There was a member of my family who, I thought, had been very unloving to me, and I hated her. I knew it was wrong. My pastor and my friends told me it was wrong, and that I should love everybody. But none could tell me how to forgive and love her. After I took up the study of Christian Science, a practitioner pointed out to me that hate was an impersonal error, and really no part of any one. Then the truth dawned on me, and what a burden was lifted from me, and how grateful I was for this truth!

About six months after I began this wonderful study, a baby boy was born to us, and the birth was painless, despite all predictions to the contrary. We had a physician in accordance with the state law, and he was very much opposed to what he thought Christian Science was; but with the help of a loving practitioner everything was very harmonious. As the doctor was leaving that night he remarked, “I don’t know if it is Christian Science or what it is; but I know this much, that I have been a practicing physician for twenty-five years and never had a case like this before.” The boy is now four years old and has never tasted medicine of any kind.

About a year ago, while playing with some other children, this child climbed an outside stairway which ran to the second floor, possibly fifteen feet or more, and fell to the concrete walk below. A lady carried his unconscious form into the house. After thanking her we excluded everybody from the room. The thought came to me immediately that God and His idea are never separate, and that nothing can separate us from God’s love and care. Then I repeated “the scientific statement of being,” as found on page 468 of “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.” When I had finished the child opened his eyes and looking up to me said, “Say it again, mother; I want to say it with you.” When we had repeated it again, he said, “I am all healed up now, and want to go out and play.” When he said this I could not restrain the tears of gratitude. I am especially grateful, because I had been studying very earnestly all day and knew the truth so clearly that no fear entered.

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