Testimony of Healing June 6, 1942 Issue

It gives me joy to acknowledge...

Harriet H. Williams

It gives me joy to acknowledge the truth of Christian Science, which has brought much real happiness to me.

It was the criticism of a kind doctor which turned me to Christian Science twenty years ago. He was very discouraging over the condition of my younger son, who had been in poor health the greater part of his nine years of life. After treating him for chronic colds, puncturing his eardrums, and predicting possible deafness or a mastoid operation, he advised me to remove him from school; then he added that he thought it was a case of "overdoctoring" or too much care. I had thought myself a perfect mother. This child had been constantly under a doctor's supervision from birth, and yet had never been well and strong. This set me thinking, and I went straight from that doctor's office to the home of a Christian Science practitioner.

I knew nothing whatever of Christian Science, and told the practitioner I did not even believe in God. Though reared in a religious home, I had turned bitterly against God when a dearly loved sister had passed on five years before. The practitioner listened lovingly, and then convinced me that God did not send sickness or death. For some time she talked to me about God—His infinite goodness and loving care. With this new concept of God—a God of love, ever present and all-knowing—the faith of my childhood, uplifted in this new understanding, completely overcame all bitterness. Though I have had many healings through the years, I count this first healing—of atheism—as my most precious blessing.

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