I should like to glorify God for...

Stella M. V. Chandler

I should like to glorify God for His healing and protecting power, as revealed in Christian Science, hoping my testimony will help someone as I have been helped.

My first healing was of scalds. I spilt some boiling water over my legs while I was on my way to bathe my baby. Immediately a message came to me from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 385): "Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself." So I bathed the baby, and afterwards a practitioner was called in. As she sat with me doing her loving work, the pain faded away.

I have also experienced a natural and harmonious childbirth. I had no medical aid, only Christian Science treatment. There was no convalescence. I was up the next day, and on the seventh day took a journey across London. This was a wonderful experience, compared with the birth of my eldest daughter, who was born before I knew of Science.

I had a large wart on my neck, and when I was preparing my thought to do some church work at our Reading Room, the suggestion came to me to do some work about the wart while there, for I seemed to be so busy at home. I challenged this immediately, knowing that my work there was not for self but for my brother man. While at the Reading Room I picked up a copy of the Sentinel and read the line, "Nothing can be added to a spiritual idea." This was on a Saturday, and on Sunday when going to bed I saw this thing in the mirror and claimed that "nothing can be added to a spiritual idea." When I awoke the next morning the wart had fallen from my neck. This was indeed a divine operation.

I have had healings of lack of supply and of separation, and wonderful protection when bombs have been falling all around. I also experienced protection when taking a train journey across England when enemy aircraft tried to bomb our train. Before I took this journey a friend gave me a slip of paper with these words from Genesis 24:56: "Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way."

My daughters have had instantaneous healings of chicken pox, whooping cough, sprained ankle, and dog bite.

I am very grateful to the practitioner who has stood by me so faithfully and shown me the way out of darkness into the light. My gratitude goes out for all our literature, especially The Christian Science Monitor.

For all these wonderful experiences through the teachings of Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, and our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, and for the privilege of class instruction, I am grateful. I have gained that "peace of God, which passeth all understanding."—(Mrs.) Stella M. V. Chandler, London, England.

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