The first divine healing that ever...

The first divine healing that ever came to our family occurred when I was only a few weeks old. The doctors had said that my mother was hopelessly ill with tuberculosis and that nothing more could be done to save her. They also said that I was so frail and weak I could not possibly live long. My mother decided to turn to the Bible to obtain all the understanding of God she could before passing on. She became absorbed in her study of some of the Psalms and parts of the New Testament, especially what is said in the Gospel of John about the Comforter. A few nights later, when the crisis came to me, she so wholeheartedly turned to God that I was completely healed. Continuing her study of the Bible, she realized several weeks later that she too was perfectly well.

After these two experiences she had an inkling that her effort to understand God had been a leading factor in the healings, and as a result her steadfast search for greater spiritual understanding continued. After several years, Christian Science was presented to her. As soon as she had read the chapter on Prayer in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, she knew that she had found what she was seeking. One of my greatest blessings is my mother's example of Christian love. There was hardly a gap between her ideal and her daily living.

I am grateful to God for more recent blessings. Several healings and much progress came to me while I was Second Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. The study required in this activity was one of the most satisfying pleasures I have ever had. When the argument of timidity and reluctance to do public reading was insistent I found this statement very helpful (Pulpit and Press by Mrs. Eddy, p. 87): "More effectual than the forum are our states of mind, to bless mankind." This thought enabled me to silence timidity about the "forum" and to give more attention to my thinking and to unselfed living. There followed a complete healing of severe and frequent headaches, showing me that the more unselfish our prayer is the more effectual it is.

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