Testimony of Healing June 13, 1964 Issue

In II Corinthians we read (9: 15),...

Joan D. Hadoulas

In II Corinthians we read (9: 15), "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift," and I wish to express my gratitude to God for all the blessings I have received through taking up the study of Christian Science. My parents became interested in this religion when I was a little girl, and it was my privilege to attend Sunday School from early childhood. During that time I had many proofs of God's care and protection. On one occasion, while playing in the garden with some other children, I ran forward and struck my face with great force against a rocky wall. My cries brought my mother outside, and immediately these words from "the scientific statement of being" were repeated (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 468): "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."'

My mother bathed my face and quietly we repeated the words of Mrs. Eddy's poem "The Mother's Evening Prayer." The first verse reads (Poems, p. 4):

O gentle presence, peace and joy and
power:
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling's
faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing
tonight.