Testimony of Healing December 13, 1969 Issue

I first learned about Christian Science when I was six years old.

Gardner G. Garlick with contributions from Doris L. Garlick

I first learned about Christian Science when I was six years old. My grandmother was given up by the doctors and told she had just a few months to live. She then became interested in Christian Science and was healed, so that she was able to travel around the country by herself and visit her married children. She was with us until I was a young man in high school.

My mother turned to Christian Science after Grandmother's healing, and we learned to look to God for our help and for healing. Our family moved frequently while I was growing up, and some of the towns where we lived did not have a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, but I did have an opportunity to attend a Christian Science Sunday School for two or three years.

After I was married, my wife became interested in Christian Science and decided she wanted our first baby born with Science treatment. Through the next several years we were blessed with four girls and four boys, all born at home, having a Christian Science nurse in attendance and the prayerful help of a Christian Science practitioner. All eight grew to manhood and womanhood relying on Christian Science for their help. Our children were healed of so-called childhood diseases, and one boy, when about eight years old, was healed of severe cuts and bruises received in an automobile accident. Another boy, while in high school, was stricken and could not walk for several weeks. He was healed through the help of a practitioner. In each case the boys were back in school much sooner than friends and neighbors expected.

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