Testimony of Healing August 3, 1957 Issue

Our spiritually inspired Leader,...

Nancy Ruth Roberts

Our spiritually inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written (Science and Health, p. 174): "Truth is revealed. It needs only to be practised." A healing in my family taught me much about proving Truth, and I want to share it.

One morning when my youngest child was in the third grade at school, she came to my room and asked me to look at her face, saying she believed she had ivy poisoning. Unmistakable symptoms were in evidence. Previously she had been playing in a park when a stray kitten attracted her. Against my protest, she had followed it into some brambles where she encountered the poison ivy.

Acknowledging her disobedience, she now asked me for help in Christian Science. I loved her honesty and humility, yet fear assailed me.

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