Testimony of Healing November 12, 1979 Issue

My mother was a semi-invalid after my birth and spent many of...

HAZLE B. FARRINGTON

My mother was a semi-invalid after my birth and spent many of her days in bed. One morning my father, disheartened and discouraged, mentioned to his office associates that his sickly wife was not able to look after their child. There was a Christian Scientist among them, and he offered a copy of the Sentinel to Father. In this magazine was an account of a person who had been healed while reading the ninety-first Psalm. As Mother read this testimony she reasoned that since "God is no respecter of persons" (Acts 10:34), and He had healed that person, He would heal her too. She asked for her Bible, and through her study she was quickly healed.

With a grateful heart, Mother announced to me, "If there is a Christian Science Sunday School, that's where you go next Sunday." I protested, but she was not swayed. She immediately embraced this Science, and during my growing-up years she was listed in The Christian Science Journal as a public practitioner.

Generally I have seen quick results from Christian Science treatment, but I suffered at one time from typhoid and pneumonia for a period of several weeks. Treatment from a practitioner and my own prayers freed me as I saw that I must claim that omnipotent Truth operates as law on my behalf. I learned that I must look away from the body and use spiritual sense to discern the real evidence of Truth and Love. At times I was so weak that I felt unable to pray. It was helpful to acknowledge that God is my strength, and that I had only to understand this fact to feel its beneficial effect. Full freedom came as these truths were realized in a greater degree. Declarations alone can do very little for us, but fuller understanding transforms and heals.

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