Testimony of Healing January 21, 1980 Issue

The Christ frees from the past and brightens the future

GRACE A. DUNBAR with contributions from HARRIETT D. ZIMMERMAN

For a number of years I have received proofs of God's constant love and care. When our first grandson was three, he was hospitalized with what was diagnosed as spinal meningitis. After approximately ten days, doctors informed the parents that the child might die. The boy's father, who was not a Christian Scientist, decided to have Christian Science treatment for their son. He dismissed the doctors from the case and signed all papers necessary to release the staff and hospital from any responsibility for the youngster. A Christian Science practitioner was called, and treatment through prayer was begun immediately.

State law required that the child remain in the hospital several more days to complete a quarantine period. No medication was administered during this time. Within twenty-four hours the fever had completely disappeared, and at the end of the quarantine our grandson was allowed to come home. Two or three days before his departure from the hospital, one leg was crippled. Two days after his release, he walked and ran perfectly. Our grandson is now a student in high school, and he participates in many sports. The healing has been permanent.

At one time a severe rash developed over my entire body, accompanied by chills and fever. I asked for help from a practitioner and also prayed for myself, determined to heal this erroneous condition. Shortly it was revealed that I had suffered for many years by believing that an unwise decision I'd made in the past was affecting my whole future. I continued to study the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy to gain a better understanding of my true selfhood as God's immortal idea. It became clear that my real identity is purely spiritual, perfect, and unimpaired by erring, mortal thought. Reasoning from the premise that divine Mind holds each of its ideas intact, untouched by false beliefs of human history, I was totally freed from the mental suffering, as well as the rash and other symptoms.

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