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."

A flood of warmth and light entered my whole being, and I was able to get up to prepare supper. As I worked in the kitchen, I remembered Mrs. Eddy's statement in Science and Health (p. 393 ), "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good." Indeed I had risen in the strength of Spirit. I rejoiced and was truly grateful. None of the symptoms, and not even the suggestion of flu, has ever returned.

I have had the opportunity of traveling a great deal by car, plane, and ship and have experienced beautiful protection in all my travels. Our home has been protected by God's omnipotence too.

I am grateful for Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, and for his and our Father-Mother God, and to Mrs. Eddy for writing the book that contains the Science of healing demonstrated by Christ Jesus.

I am increasingly thankful for class instruction, for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for the blessed opportunity to work on committees and to teach in the Sunday School. I am more grateful each day for the periodicals including The Christian Science Monitor, which indeed bless the world today.

(Mrs.) Joan R. Ripley
Massapequa Park, Long Island, New York

I am happy to be able to vouch for the healings related in my wife's testimony. I know that during the sixteen years of our marriage Christian Science has been her only means of healing.

John E. Ripley
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