Testimony of Healing October 8, 1966 Issue

Many years ago an undiagnosed, extremely painful disease kept...

Miriam C. Dalton

Many years ago an undiagnosed, extremely painful disease kept me bedfast for several weeks; and finally when all seemed lost because I was so weak from pain I could no longer move, I asked for the Christian Science Hymnal, and in a very weak voice started to sing some of my favorites. While I was singing, my husband arrived. He came and sat beside me and sang with me. This broke the mesmerism, and in a few days I was up and around.

However, before the healing was complete, I realized what had brought me to such a state of suffering. I had gone back to my home town while my husband was an officer serving in France, and when he returned he bought, without consulting me, a new house in a distant city where he was to be employed. The house was attractive and adequate but not in a location that I wanted to live in. I said very little, but resentment rankled in my thought for several years, and the resultant suffering proved to me that it would have been much better if I had worked out this problem in Christian Science with patience and love. With this healing came the opportunity to purchase a much larger and better house with more pleasant surroundings.

A few years later my husband and I had the wonderful experience of class instruction, and this helped us greatly when our little daughter was healed of a serious illness and my husband was healed of heart trouble. At a time when another undiagnosed sickness caused me great pain, a new meaning came to me of the third commandment which begins (Ex. 20:7), "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."

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