Testimony of Healing March 11, 1972 Issue

An instantaneous healing over thirty years ago was the first of...

Jean M. Peede with contributions from Ruth P. Howard

An instantaneous healing over thirty years ago was the first of many proofs that I had found in Christian Science, the healing Comforter, which Christ Jesus said would come. Two of my three children had suffered serious ear conditions. One child had had a mastoid operation. Then when the ear specialist was to be called in again for the third child, I was too upset to assist the doctor. So I went next door to enlist the assistance of my neighbor.

"Do you want me to help her?" he asked. "Anything, anything," I replied, knowing only vaguely what he meant and that he was a Christian Scientist. When we returned to the house, the doctor had decided to wait till the next day to open the ear. He never had to return! My neighbor's teen-age daughter came in with Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, from which she read to us much of the day. That night was the first in several that there had been no cries of pain. The ear problem cleared up completely. Soon the children were attending the Christian Science Sunday School, and I was attending the church services.

Some time later a large boil appeared on my young son's arm. Fearing that it should be lanced and drained, I called a Christian Science practitioner for help. "Don't be afraid," she advised. "It will go to its native nothingness." I pondered those words all day long, wondering what they meant. The next morning there was no boil, no mark to show where it had been. It had just disappeared into its native nothingness, proving the truth of this statement from Science and Health, which I was later to learn and appreciate (p. 365): "If the Scientist reaches his patient through divine Love, the healing work will be accomplished at one visit, and the disease will vanish into its native nothingness like dew before the morning sunshine."

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