When my younger daughter was about two years old, she injured...

KATHERINE J. GLANCIES

When my younger daughter was about two years old, she injured her foot. A Christian Science practitioner agreed to pray for us, but because a family member was quite concerned, I took the youngster to have her foot X-rayed. All the while I pondered this statement from the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 496): "Hold perpetually this thought,—that it is the spiritual idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing, based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, overlying, and encompassing all true being." The X-ray showed that the foot had been broken but had begun to mend.

The practitioner continued to pray for my daughter until a complete healing took place. It was a beautiful evidence of "the operation of divine Principle." Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. xi): "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation."

Two years ago I suffered from a cold. When the symptoms refused to yield to my own prayerful efforts, I called a practitioner for help. Immediately I began study of my Bible and Science and Health. After working with this sentence in the textbook (p. 463): "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive," I dropped off to sleep. Later, when I woke, the cold was gone. I'd been healed. This same sentence from the textbook proved useful when my daughter had a wart on her hand. A practitioner prayed for the child.Editors' Note: The following comments by a Christian Science practitioner provide some insight into the treatment given the child. The wart fell off while we were driving home after a Wednesday testimony meeting in our branch church.

These blessings and many others have left me with an abiding gratitude for Christian Science.

KATHERINE J. GLANCIES
Grand Prairie, Texas

I am personally acquainted with the testifier. I also know her little daughter, Ginger, a pupil in the Christian Science Sunday School, who is learning to trust the law of divine Truth to meet her needs.

At one time, with her mother's permission, Ginger phoned me to talk about her desire to be rid of the wart on her hand. After agreeing to pray for her, I assured Ginger that she was God's perfect child, and that it is not possible for a spiritual idea to be touched by a false belief, regardless of what the belief is called or how real it appears to be. I asked Ginger to turn her attention away from the wart, and she promised to do this.

I was not surprised a week later when Ginger told me that the wart "just fell off." In my prayer for her, I had discerned quite clearly the unblemished perfection of the pure, childlike thought. I was certain that false belief cannot maintain itself in the presence of such God-derived qualities as innocence and purity. I realized this so distinctly and held such a deep conviction of the validity of spiritual truth in this instance, that a small fleshly growth just below my armpit vanished at the same time. The growth had been there for ten years or more. I see Ginger regularly, and her healing has been permanent.

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