Testimony of Healing February 20, 1943 Issue

I should like to give grateful...

Max Dunaway

I should like to give grateful testimony to the power of Love to preserve and protect and to heal estranged relations.

My brother and I were operating a livestock ranch in a district where a herd law had recently been passed for the protection of unfenced farms. As we believed our stock would not have access to any such farms, we allowed them to graze along the river that ran near our ranch. A near-by neighbor, feeling that the stock were damaging his interests and that we should not allow them to graze out, put the stock in his corral and informed us that we might regain possession of them only by paying him a fee, for which the herd law provided in such instances. This we were unwilling to do, believing our stock had caused no damage. In the argument which ensued, the gentleman went into his house and returned with a pistol. My brother, greatly offended, was at the point of precipitating further strife by striking him. Meanwhile, I was pleading that this matter be taken to the proper authorities and settled in a peaceable manner. This plea at last prevailed, and we went to the district attorney.

During the drive, these words from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy kept recurring to my thought (p. 391): "Justice is the moral signification of law." I worked also to know that there was no bitter relationship among men, but that, as our Leader says (ibid., p. 470), "The children of God have but one Mind."

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