Testimony of Healing July 10, 1978 Issue

While carrying our first child I made a major decision: to be a...

Mary Jane Schulze with contributions from Elaine M. Dyson

While carrying our first child I made a major decision: to be a faithful, practicing Christian Scientist. I realized I could not accept any other way of life. In order to accept Science more fully, I needed to understand it clearly; to be a practicing Christian Scientist, I needed to learn how to implement the teaching. Thus, the way opened for me to take Primary class instruction.

When our daughter was five weeks old, I left for class and came home two weeks later, filled with the most precious gift I could ever give her—a clearer, workable understanding of Christian Science. The seed had been sown, and we have been reaping the harvest ever since.

One afternoon, about eighteen months later, I walked in on our daughter to find her in a state of convulsion complicated by lockjaw. There was nothing material I could do for her at that moment, and it appeared I was losing her. Mary Baker Eddy tells us (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 1), "Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds." I prayed aloud the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mrs. Eddy. The first lines read (ibid., p. 16):

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