Testimony of Healing September 16, 1950 Issue

When I was a child, my mother...

Dora S. Davis

When I was a child, my mother was restored to health by Christian Science after two doctors had said she could not possibly live. This healing was accomplished with the help of a practitioner and also by her own reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Mother made many wonderful demonstrations of the truth and cared for her home, husband, and seven children. To human sense she was alone because Christian Science was not understood in the little rural community where we lived, and ridicule had turned my father from studying, as he began to do after my mother's healing.

In the passing on of two who were dear to me I was greatly sustained, and I started studying more faithfully. My human sense of responsibility for maintaining a home for two small children seemed to leave little time for extra study.

Our material needs have been met, and so-called children's diseases have been healed. At one time there was an epidemic of scarlet fever in the school. The children were sent home, as the teacher thought they had the symptoms of this disease. When putting the children to bed I noticed red spots on the body of the younger child. As we had no telephone, I sent a special delivery letter to the nearest practitioner that I knew. The next morning the child's body was free from blemishes, and she wanted to go to school; but before any of the children could do so, it was necessary to have a written statement of release from a physician. After the examination the report of "no symptoms whatever" was given, and my children were allowed to return to school.

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