Testimony of Healing December 18, 1978 Issue

When I was eight years old, I was healed of deafness after attending...

Maxine Le Pelley

When I was eight years old, I was healed of deafness after attending the Christian Science Sunday School as a visitor for a short time. The doctors had told my mother that I would never hear again. Some years earlier she had been given Christian Science literature, but threw it into the fire. However, my healing caused her to look into this religion for herself, and she was quickly healed of inflammatory rheumatism. Later she became a Christian Science practitioner. A sister, who had been hospitalized for two years with a disease described as incurable, was sent a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. From her study of the book she gained courage to leave the hospital and have the prayers of a practitioner. She was permanently healed.

Although these healings took place years ago, they have been inerasable standards of healing to cherish when a problem has been more demanding, or slow in being solved.

In recent years I have been grateful for a healing of an internal difficulty that interfered with the retention of food. Spells of sickness were frequent. Always I would receive relief when a Christian Science practitioner was called to treat me through prayer. However, the difficulty persisted. Mrs. Eddy writes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 233): "Ignorance of self is the most stubborn belief to overcome, for apathy, dishonesty, sin, follow in its train. One should watch to know what his errors are; and if this watching destroys his peace in error, should one watch against such a result? He should not. Our Master said, 'He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me ... and he that loseth his life [his false sense of life] for my sake shall find it.' (Matthew 10:38, 39.)"

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