Testimony of Healing August 17, 1946 Issue

"A little more grace, a motive...

Mary Gould Dunbar

"A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God." says our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 54). The motive in telling of my experiences in Christian Science is the humble desire to bear witness to that statement of the healing, regenerating benefits of Christian Science.

My introduction to Science was at a time when I was faced with a major operation. The family doctor had diagnosed the condition as an internal malignant one, and he said that while an operation was the only thing that would cure it, he could give no assurance of a permanent healing, or even that I should survive the operation. Simultaneously, our daughter, then four years old developed a severe case of whooping cough. As I had no one to care for her while I went to the hospital, I asked an acquaintance who was a student of Christian Science whether it would be possible to get help for our daughter so that I might hasten my trip to the hospital for the operation.

A practitioner was called to help, but the child continued to cough with no apparent benefit from the treatment. However, at the end of the first two weeks the practitioner, whom I had never seen, detected in my thought the fact that I wanted the child healed so that I would be free to go to the hospital. She recommended, that I put off going to the hospital for a while to see how I came along, because, she told me, the child's difficulty had to be treated through my thought. The child went through the full period of whooping cough, but at the end of the four weeks I found myself healed of the internal condition and also of constipation of many years' standing.

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