Testimony of Healing September 24, 1979 Issue

While I was growing up, I dearly loved the spiritual truths...

RUTH S. WHITLING

While I was growing up, I dearly loved the spiritual truths taught in the Christian Science Sunday School and told me by my mother. When I was still quite small, my hand was severely burned on an electric stove. My mother quietly took me to my room and read to me from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I fell asleep, and after a short nap awakened completely healed. At thirteen I was healed of a severe case of warts.

After I completed school, I was on my own after the passing of my father. Gradually I drifted away from attending church, not then realizing the deep significance and power of God's laws.

Later in the course of raising a family, life's problems seemed to loom larger and larger, until we found ourselves in desperate financial straits. My health was gone, my sanity was in jeopardy, and the youngest of my five children was suffering from the aftereffects of chicken pox with fever and convulsions. The doctors did not seem able to help. In desperation I turned to God with my whole heart. I went to a Christian Science Reading Room in our little town, and there in The Christian Science Journal I found the name of a Christian Science practitioner in a nearby city. I telephoned and asked if she would pray for the little fellow. Within half an hour the child was sleeping peacefully. The fever left, and the other symptoms left shortly thereafter, never to return.

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