Testimony of Healing June 2, 1934 Issue

Although my gratitude to Christian Science is boundless,...

Katheryn Law Gardner

Although my gratitude to Christian Science is boundless, I wish to express a measure of it in a testimony for others to share. Our heavenly Father's love and protection were experienced throughout childhood, and evidenced in healings of a broken wrist, scarlet fever, crushed fingers, whooping cough, supersensitiveness, and other discords. The day after breaking my right wrist a spelling examination was written at school and the mark of one hundred per cent received on my paper. Once when I had reached the top of a deeply frost-coated barn roof, I slipped and slid down with alarming rapidity, but instantly I knew that God loved me, and I felt only a calm trust. A buggy was kept at the place toward which I was falling, and I dropped unshaken with my feet in the spokes of the wheel and my hands on top of it. When I was three years old run-away horses dashed down the street and ran into our car as I was endeavoring to escape by climbing over the fender, and although I was directly under them I was unharmed. Mother said I told her later that I knew God was taking care of me.

An outstanding proof of the ever available abundance of God was manifested at a time when my husband doubted whether the seemingly inadequate water supply from a spring warranted his putting up buildings on some ranch land he had acquired. We had both set our hearts on this particular spot for our future home, so it seemed a struggle to relinquish human planning and truly, whole-heartedly declare, "Not my will, but thine, be done." During that time, with the aid of a Christian Science practitioner, I clung to the truth. I became increasingly grateful for the true sense of supply, and exulted in my brother's abundance as well as my own.

The knowledge of this truth means much to me. The demonstration was far-reaching and sure. The spring, which is halfway up a high hill, was in due time excavated, and affords an adequate supply of water. During the working out of this problem my father was able to convert an old, inefficient spring into a constantly flowing well and a similar water supply was developed on his farm in North Dakota, where it met an urgent need.

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