Testimony of Healing December 28, 1963 Issue

One evening as my wife and I...

Robert Henry Thew

One evening as my wife and I were preparing for church, our thirteen-year-old son came in with his right arm hanging limp at his side. With love, we reassured him that man, God's perfect spiritual child, can in no way fall from God's kingdom and therefore cannot experience an accident of any nature. The pain ceased mediately, and upon his insistence we went to church and left him studying the textbook. Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and declaring the truth he had been learning in the Christian Science Sunday School.

The next morning, after he had spent a restless night, there was evidence of nervous shock. It was the last day of school, and although he wanted very much to attend, he did not see how it would be possible in his condition. Through quiet and earnest prayer he was assured that the only voice error could have was the voice he gave it and that he could stand fast and refuse to be error's mouthpiece. So readily did he accept this that he went to school, and although he could not use his arm, not one comment was made about it by others.

Though the physical evidence changed very little in the next few days, the mental attitude was one of joy and peace, and the boy's only concern was that the complete healing might not take place in time for him to go on a promised camping trip in the near future. That argument was silenced by our positive statement that healing was not a matter of time but of accepting wholeheartedly at that very moment the many wonderful and true statements we had been declaring of man and his relation to God.

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