Testimony of Healing October 18, 1969 Issue

A beautiful baby and immediate return to caring for my family...

Virginia Lee Chisholm Kerr with contributions from Norman John Kerr, Jr.

A beautiful baby and immediate return to caring for my family after childbirth were the results of steadfastly relying upon God. These proofs of God's loving and perfect care were evidenced in our home even in the face of a medical diagnosis that was alarming.

We were new residents in a community when I was expecting our third child. I sought to engage a physician who would render his services in the home when the baby was due to arrive. On a periodic visit I made to his office, he told me there was evidence of a "killer disease," and he urged me to subscribe to a medical remedy immediately. As students of Christian Science we had relied upon God as our only physician and healer for a number of years. Now was not the time to turn from Him but rather more fully to Him in order to destroy the fears connected with the doctor's diagnosis.

Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health (p. 297): "Erroneous belief is destroyed by truth. Change the evidence, and that disappears which before seemed real to this false belief, and the human consciousness rises higher." My husband and I kindly dismissed the physician, and a Christian Science practitioner took up the work. Much study of the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's works brought forth the courage to destroy the fear of death.

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