Testimony of Healing March 12, 1966 Issue

I am grateful to be learning...

Dorothy L. Leever

I am grateful to be learning through the study and application of Christian Science that God truly does meet our every human need. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health on page 410: "Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger. The more difficult seems the material condition to be overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith and the purer our love."

We had the opportunity to put this statement to a test about six years ago when our second son, then three years old, severely burned the bottom of his feet. The child asked me to read to him from the Bible. I read the twenty-third and ninety-first Psalms to him over and over until he fell asleep for a short nap. When he awoke he was unable to stand on his feet as they were covered with large blisters and the flesh on one of his big toes was burned off.

Early that evening we telephoned our teacher in Christian Science and asked for treatment for the child, who was unable to sleep that first night. The second evening, during a telephone conversation with our teacher, we were told not to sympathize with error. I realized that I was making a reality out of the child's suffering and that I must take a firmer stand for the truth and overcome the fear in my thinking.

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