Testimony of Healing October 3, 1977 Issue

Ever since the early years of this century, when Christian Science...

Dorothy F. Church with contributions from Richard L. Church

Ever since the early years of this century, when Christian Science healed my father of tuberculosis, I have been blessed and protected by the great truths of this marvelous Science. This was true both in the growing-up years and when I married and we were bringing up our own family. Christian Science was presented to us by a neighbor for the healing of my father. It also had the answers to questions my mother had long been seeking, and from then on our whole family experience was regenerated.

During the years of the Second World War, I became mesmerized by the pressures of the war effort. I had added to an already full schedule the preserving of hundreds of jars of vegetables and fruits that I had grown. Finally I became physically incapacitated and mentally depressed. I asked for treatment from a Christian Science practitioner and was taken to my mother's home, where my mother lovingly cared for me. It seemed I slept neither night nor day. The normal activities going on around me appeared remote and impossible to share.

During these weeks, while the healing was taking place, I continually read and prayed, although it seemed like I was simply reading words. But one day I read an illustration in a Sentinel that showed me the purpose of my efforts. Someone who was asked to fill a basket with water replied, "But the water will just run out through the basket!" The answer came back, "But think how clean the basket will be." From this I was encouraged to realize that the ideas of Truth I was striving to hold on to were at least cleansing my thought so that it could be healed.

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