Testimony of Healing May 31, 1975 Issue

[Original in Indonesian]

After our eldest son had attended first grade for several months,...

Rosminah Soedjatmo with contributions from Soedjatmo Tirtohamidjojo, Sigrid Reetz

After our eldest son had attended first grade for several months, the principal of the school called me and said that our son could not continue his studies but should be enrolled in a special school for retarded children. The principal said he would give me three months to make a decision.

One day not long afterward the boy became quite sick with fever and also difficult to control. I asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. With loving assurance she told me not to see our son as my own human child according to the concept of man in the story of creation as told in Genesis, Chapter 2, which regards man as material and mortal. Instead, I was to see him as God's son, created spiritual and perfect as God's image and likeness, according to the concept of man in Genesis, Chapter 1.

The child of God is a perfect reflection of all God's qualities and lives in God, as we read in the Bible (Acts 17:28): "In him we live, and move, and have our being." It would be impossible for him to fall out of God's kingdom, out of the verity of man as God's image and likeness into the unreality of man as material and mortal. Instead, the only true child is always with God in His kingdom, and always wholly perfect and spiritual, reflecting God's intelligence and all capability by divine law. I faithfully clung to these truths about our son and refused to see him otherwise.

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