Testimony of Healing September 12, 1942 Issue

Through following the line of...

Pearle M. Warren

Through following the line of thinking brought out in a testimony in the Christian Science Sentinel many years ago, I have been able to work out a similar problem. I am grateful to the writer of that testimony, for my demonstration has proved a blessing to me and mine.

I was first attracted to Christian Science by an advertisement in our local paper of the subject of one of the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, "Probation after Death." This was a voice in the wilderness to me, for I could not believe in predestination and everlasting punishment. Here was a new idea, an idea of another chance for everyone. Even now we are all on probation, proving "all things," holding "fast that which is good."

I have had many healings in Christian Science, some of which were instantaneous. When my daughter was eleven years of age, she sustained a compound fracture of the elbow. The physician expressed a fear that the arm might be stiff and might not grow properly. A Christian Science practitioner was given the case, and in less than the time usually required under material treatment the healing was complete. One instance of the overcoming of pain during the healing was accomplished through following the advice of the practitioner, who, in response to a telephone call for help, said, "Sing Mrs. Eddy's hymn 'O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind,'" of which the first stanza reads (Poems, p. 12),

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