Testimony of Healing April 14, 1962 Issue

When our daughter was a...

Doris Reynolds Robinson

When our daughter was a baby she became ill and was unable to eat. A high fever, accompanied by extreme listlessness, caused us to have grave fear. Help was asked for from a Christian Science practitioner and was given through prayer. Although the practitioner's work lifted some of our sense of anxiety, no change was immediately evident in the child's condition.

Each day some clear idea of Truth sustained me, and I can never be grateful enough for the fact that my husband, though not then a student of Christian Science, respected my desire to rely solely on God for healing.

On the third day I went to the basement to do some ironing. While I was engaged in this, my thought turned to the account of Moses at the burning bush, and in particular to these words: "The bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed" (Ex. 3:2). I reasoned that a fever claims to change and destroy matter, but if it burned all it wanted to, it could never affect the child's true substance as a spiritual idea of God, divine Mind.

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