Testimony of Healing January 4, 1969 Issue

Christian Science has been my constant companion for twenty...

Joan R. Ripley with contributions from John E. Ripley

Christian Science has been my constant companion for twenty years. My father was healed of a nervous breakdown through the help of a Christian Science practitioner. As a result of this healing in 1947, our whole family accepted Christian Science. Through the years I have been able to demonstrate its guiding, healing, and protective powers.

In school, Christian Science guided me in deciding what courses to follow. By applying the truths I learned I was able to make good grades on many difficult exams.

In the years of progress since, one healing stands out. It took place some time ago. I had worked late one afternoon, and as I left the building to go home, the symptoms of flu suddenly overcame me. I managed to reach home, but when I was in the house, I gave in to error and went straight to bed. I had not been there five minutes when the Bible account of Jesus' healing of Peter's wife's mother came to my thought. [The account reads (Matt. 8:14,15): "When Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them."] The words that came vividly to me are, "she arose, and ministered unto them."

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