Testimony of Healing August 8, 1925 Issue

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Beatrice Louisa Norman

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 192) Mrs. Eddy tells us, "Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power." With the hope that what was such a spiritual help and blessing to me may in turn comfort and strengthen others, I am writing to tell how these words were fulfilled in my own experience.

In June, 1922, my thirteen-year-old daughter, busy at school and apparently in perfect health, without any seeming cause began to fail rapidly. She first showed signs of extreme nervousness and was uncertain in her movements, often upsetting things and stumbling when she walked. At first I put this down to overpressure at school; so I took her to a quiet beach, where I left her for a week in the care of a reliable and devoted friend.

Having at this time a large class of music pupils, I had to return to my work. At the end of the week, when I went for the child hoping to find an improvement, I found her rapidly growing worse and immediately placed her in the care of a Christian Science practitioner. This consecrated woman took up the work, truly with unselfed love, for I had been obliged to resign my work and we had given up our home in the city, so I had nothing to offer her but a thanksgiving for the Love she was bringing to our aid. At first, the power of Truth uncovered error through chemicalization to the fullest extent. My little daughter lost the power to walk, or even to stand alone; she could not feed herself; and her speech was so indistinct that at times it was very difficult to understand what she was trying to say. Often she had difficulty in swallowing; and as she could not control her movements, it was very hard to convey her food to her mouth.

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