Testimony of Healing January 11, 1975 Issue

After a consultation with five doctors our family was told that...

Ruby Nanney Burbank

After a consultation with five doctors our family was told that our mother could not live more than two or three weeks. The doctors said they could do no more. A sister persuaded her to try Science. After treatment by a Christian Science practitioner she was healed. At my father's insistence she consented to a physical examination. The doctor not only assured us of her complete recovery but gave Christian Science full credit for it. After witnessing this healing I no longer doubted the healing power of Science, but I was not ready to accept it for myself.

During a flu epidemic I became quite ill. A number of the employees were already out of our office, and I was needed. I decided to put Christian Science to the test. I called on the same practitioner who had helped my mother. Up to this time I had never read a word of Christian Science literature, but I was healed and from that day on, for over forty years, Christian Science has been my only physician.

To help pay his college tuition, my oldest son took a job on the cleaning crew of an airline. After he had been working late one night, he went to sleep at the wheel of his car on the way home, crossed over the double line into heavy morning traffic, and hit another car head-on. No one was injured in the other car, but my son was taken to the hospital, where I was told he had a concussion. After releasing the hospital from all responsibility, I was permitted to take him home, but I was warned there might be dire results.

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