Testimony of Healing May 8, 1948 Issue

The testimonies given at the...

Barbara Fillbright

The testimonies given at the Wednesday evening meetings and those published in the Sentinel have meant so much to me that I should like to tell of a few instantaneous healings we have had in our home.

One evening while preparing dinner I put the tips of my lingers into boiling grease. The pain was so severe that I started to go to the sink to run cold water over them. As I did so, the thought came: "Why, that won't do any good. I shall have to know the truth." With this, I turned back to the work I was doing and lifted my thought to God. Then came the substance of Mrs. Eddy's question in Science and Health (p. 250), "Now I ask, Is there any more reality in the waking dream of mortal existence than in the sleeping dream?" I thought: "Why, there is no more truth in this than there would be if I were dreaming it at night. It just did not happen." With that, the pain disappeared. However, when I finished what I was doing and was washing my hands, I started to examine my fingers, and the pain returned. I said, "All right, then I won't even look," and I clung to the realization that no accident had ever happened. Several hours later, when retiring, I did look, and there was absolutely no sign of a burn.

When I was new in my study of Christian Science, one of our children, then only two years old, was put to bed in the early evening with a continuous cough. I picked up Science and Health, knowing it contained the healing truth, and read for several hours, but there was no improvement. It was so late that I thought I should go to bed, but after getting ready I decided to read some more. Then in a very few minutes I came across this statement (p. 480): "If sin, sickness, and death were understood as nothingness, they would disappear." With that there came a sense of the allness of God and the nothingness of the disease. The coughing stopped instantly and was not heard again.

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