Testimony of Healing February 13, 1926 Issue

My first healing came to me over thirty years ago when...

Imogene B. Blair

My first healing came to me over thirty years ago when at home with my parents. I was in bed with consumption, not able to speak aloud. All had been done for me that materia medica and change of climate could do, when a dear friend and neighbor brought Christian Science to us for the first time and explained it as best she could, telling us of her own healing, which was proof to us of its validity. A practitioner was called, and my healing came very quickly; and all through the years since, we have daily turned to Christian Science to meet our every need.

I am sure that my thoughts were prepared for this quick healing by the teaching of a dear teacher in a Methodist Sunday School which I attended. She often told us that if the Principle of Jesus' healing work were understood, healing could be done to-day as it was in olden times. This I often pondered; and on hearing the story of this neighbor's healing from her own lips, I accepted the fact with all my heart that Christian Science is the Word of God, the truth that heals our diseases as well as our sins. Some years later I married and went out to a big wheat ranch to live. It was here that another healing came from the pure child-thought reflecting Truth. My two eldest girls were then two and four years of age. It was in North Dakota during a blizzard, when the men were at the barn and no child could face the storm, that I was taken critically ill. I called the two little tots to me and asked them to repeat "the scientific statement of being," to be found on page 468 of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. They knew every line of it, although the younger one could not speak the words plainly; the older child had asked dozens of questions about it, and had used it with quick result at one time.

I asked them to repeat it over and over, and not to stop until their father got in from the barn. They began first by standing in front of me, but after a little the older one dropped on her knees and the little tot did the same. After they had gone through the statement, I would say, "Over"; and they would repeat it again and again. Finally my head fell back on my chair and the words seemed far away; but the faithful little sentinels kept right on. Soon I seemed to lose the words; but I was listening with all my soul, when suddenly there thundered forth like a great noise: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." This aroused me, and I sat up and looked around. This children were still repeating the words in their usual tone; but where had that thundering voice come from? Long afterwards, in reading the following lines, I understood: "The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, 'as when a lion roareth.' It is heard in the desert and in dark places of fear" (ibid., p. 559). I told the little tots that mamma was healed. I called them to me and they came one on each side, placing their arms around my neck; but the older one kept rubbing her soft little hand over my face. When my husband came in, although I protested stoutly, he took me in his arms and put me to bed, and there he kept me. The next day, however, while he was at the barn I decided to get up, and did so, but on looking in the glass I understood why the little hands had been rubbed over my face. It was still colorless even to the lips; so I decided it was best to get back into bed and apply my Science, which I did and soon I was looking natural again.

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