Article October 23, 1978 Issue

More than physical healing

GRACE ARCHER DUNBAR

My mother was healed through the study and application of Christian Science while I was away at college. I later learned that three leading physicians in our town had told her she would not live more than six months. In that dark hour she remembered Christian Science, which had been brought to her attention many years before, and sought the help of a Christian Science practitioner. Within a few days she had a complete and permanent healing.

When I returned home for summer vacation, I knew nothing about the physical illness and healing, but I did know that a wonderful change was taking place in my mother. Anxiety and impatience were giving way to calmness and expectancy of good. Fear for the safety of family members was yielding to an understanding of God's love and care for all His children. My mother was expressing unselfed love freely to all, and a more harmonious home was established.

When I started the study of Christian Science, I soon found out that this "new person" I was seeing had been there all the time. It became clear to me that my mother's true spiritual identity was inviolate and had never been marred by the lies of corporeal sense. It was also evident that these lies—the false, mortal characteristics, the ill feelings—were vanishing in the radiancy of her native Christliness now coming to light. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual,—they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite,—in order that sin and mortality may be put off." Science and Health, p. 265:

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