Testimony of Healing September 5, 1959 Issue

Gratitude impels me to share...

Edith Hewett Donovan

Gratitude impels me to share some of the healing experiences which have resulted from the study and application of Christian Science. Through the years when our children were growing up, there were many healings, including those of measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, impetigo, blood poisoning, sunburn, colic, and many others. I should particularly like to tell of two healings from which I feel I have gained much in the way of spiritual progress.

While sitting in an auditorium with my husband and a friend, I was taken with a heart attack. It was necessary to be helped out into the lobby. A Christian Science practitioner was quickly summoned, and he began declaring the truth as we learn it in Christian Science. The practitioner and a friend stayed with me until I could be taken home. Within two hours all distress disappeared, and I had a sense of complete freedom and dominion, which was manifested in several ways, not the least of which was the ability to stand alone.

A more recent healing took a few weeks to accomplish, and throughout the time I had the consecrated work of an understanding practitioner. I was visiting a friend in a city several miles from home when, in the night, I fell from a high bed and landed in a sitting position on the floor. Because of the extreme pain and the claim that my back had been badly injured, my husband and a friend who had had some nursing experience came to take me home. After two days at home it was decided that I should be taken to the Sanatorium of the Christian Science Benevolent Association at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, for nursing care.

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