Testimony of Healing August 6, 1927 Issue

Christian Science healed me of chronic throat trouble, a...

Leona M. Williams with contributions from Mason L. Williams

Christian Science healed me of chronic throat trouble, a great fear of hereditary tuberculosis, of the need for glasses, of floating kidney, and opened my eyes to my many faults and inspired the desire to correct them. It also made the birth of our little son an harmonious experience. He is now nine years old, and has never tasted medicine. When I have made this statement I have occasionally been asked, "Not even a laxative?" Of course I have answered, "Not even that."

This child has had many healings in Christian Science, but I wish to refer especially to the healing of bowlegs. He was born with this condition, but we thought he would outgrow it. He walked quite young and his legs grew worse, until at three years they appeared deformed. I tried to know the truth for him, but seemed to make no headway. One day I called on a friend, and she said that I should take the child to a surgeon and have his legs straightened by breaking them and putting them in casts. My answer was that I never used material means for healing, and that the child's legs would be straight. She made no reply, but her look said plainly that she had never heard such nonsense before.

On my way home I realized that I had made a statement which I must set to work at once to prove. I asked God to show me the way, and the following Wednesday I heard three testimonies of crooked teeth being straightened. This greatly encouraged me, and thereafter it seemed that every time I opened the Bible or "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I found a beautiful promise. Particularly helpful statements I found on pages 243 and 244 of Science and Health: "Inasmuch as God is good and the fount of all being, He does not produce moral or physical deformity; therefore such deformity is not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error;" also on page 423 of the same book, "Bones have only the substance of thought which forms them."

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