Testimony of Healing December 7, 1946 Issue

Many years ago in a city far...

Marion Jack

Many years ago in a city far distant from our home, my husband and I were invited to attend a Christian Science Wednesday evening testimony meeting. We were so deeply impressed by the quiet dignity of the service and the loving attitude of the members toward us that we accepted that church then and there as our place of worship while in that city. When we left, after a stay of almost five months, this healing religion had become such a strong influence in our lives that we found we could not go back to the old orthodox way of thinking.

My husband had organized a business partnership in a small town in the Middle West and we moved there, planning to join a Christian Science church. However, we found the nearest one to be nearly thirty miles away, and in those days travel was not the simple thing it is today. We continued to study as best we knew how, trying to put into practice what we had learned. One morning while our youngest son and I were alone in our home, he fell out of an upstairs window onto the stone driveway beneath. As I rushed down the stairs and through the hall, my thought was filled with fear and confusion, yet I kept asking God to show me what to do.

When I reached the child, the thought came, "Now is the opportunity to prove the truth of what you have been studying during the past few months." My husband was away on a hunting trip, but I felt sure that were he at home he would call a physician, believing we were not sufficiently advanced in Science to attempt to solve this serious problem. There were three physicians in the town, so I called each one in turn, only to find two of them away and the third unable to come. There was no choice but to use what I knew of Christian Science.

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