Testimony of Healing September 8, 1956 Issue

When our son was about a year...

Harriett McMillan

When our son was about a year old, I had a very serious operation. Soon afterward I had a nervous breakdown. I knew that our child needed my care, and we had no money for a rest cure or vacation. During this time of dire extremity my thoughts were lifted to God for help. I had not attended or been interested in any church for many years, although I had been very religious as a child.

I remembered a case of books which my husband's mother had given him when he went into the Navy before we were married. The case contained the Christian Science textbooks, the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. We had taken the case of books around with us for many years and for many thousands of miles, since we had lived in several foreign countries before settling down permanently. During all that time these books had never been opened. I remembered that we had them stored in the loft in the garage.

When I climbed the ladder to get them down to read, I remembered hearing in my childhood the story of Jacob's dream of a ladder which reached from earth to heaven and on which the angels of God were ascending and descending. I felt that the story had much significance in my present experience.

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