Testimony of Healing March 26, 1977 Issue

More than fifty years ago I joined The Mother Church

Novella M. Bigby

More than fifty years ago I joined The Mother Church. I had been studying Christian Science for several years and had accepted its teachings as the way of life our Master, Christ Jesus, taught.

My family and I had many proofs of God's healing and sustaining power during my busy years as wife, mother, and office worker. There were healings of headaches, colds, influenza, a broken bone and sprains, so-called childhood diseases, and also of bad temper and willfulness. Space will not permit me to tell of all the healings and help I have received through the years, but I would like to mention some healings which seemed outstanding to me.

One day our younger son, then a freshman in high school, was accused of stealing at school. The principal phoned me that evening to tell me that a purse with a ten-dollar bill in it had been stolen and that he had reason to suspect our son had taken it. He asked me to go through the boy's clothing and school books to search for the money, and to question him carefully. I did this, and our son did not seem to know what I was talking about. My husband was away at work, and, realizing the seriousness of this charge, I turned to Hymn No. 382 in the Christian Science Hymnal and prayed faithfully to realize the full import of its message for us, our son, and for the whole school. The second stanza had special meaning for me:

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