Testimony of Healing July 2, 1932 Issue

Each day finds me more grateful for Christian Science,...

Nellie G. Tenney

Each day finds me more grateful for Christian Science, which is teaching us that "God's promises are kept," and that He is "a very present help in trouble." I did not learn of Christian Science through a physical healing, but through seeking help for a dear one. The practitioner's explanation of Truth gave me that for which I had been hungering. My daughter was placed in the Christian Science Sunday School, and I began an earnest study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

Our first test was a case of scarlet fever manifested by the child. Reared in a physician's family, I had been taught how serious fever was believed to be to a child. Before learning of Christian Science I used to be terror-stricken whenever my daughter manifested the slightest degree of fever, but this time I had no fear. I was learning to go "unto my Father." The sickness continued almost a week, and then one night she seemed to be much worse. We talked over what she had learned in the Sunday school, and I read from the textbook, We realized the impossibility of God's child being sick, since God, the loving Father-Mother, the only creator, cares for His creation in eternal perfection and harmony, and His great love encircles, upholds, and guides us. I went to bed and to sleep. The morning brought deliverance: not a sign of the error remained. Like the man healed "at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful," who went walking and leaping and praising God, so the child danced and sang in gratitude for her freedom. I knew that when my fear was wholly allayed the child was healed. Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 376), "Destroy fear, and you end fever."

Chills and fever have been healed by realizing the truth stated in the Lord's Prayer. On page 16 of our textbook we are told, "Our Master said, 'After this manner therefore pray ye,' and then he gave that prayer which covers all human needs." I repeated each line with its spiritual interpretation as given on that and the following page, and after each line tried to realize that "now are we the sons of God;" right now are we that beloved son, in His presence, and with nothing to be healed. When the prayer was ended, the difficulty was instantly overcome and harmony, the rightful heritage of the son of God, was restored. Through the application of Christian Science, headaches, colds, an injured foot, and unlovely traits of character have been healed. Mental work in Christian Science was also found sufficient to heal a fractured wrist.

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