Testimony of Healing August 25, 1980 Issue

Recently, during a Wednesday testimony meeting...

ALICE D. LAMB

Recently, during a Wednesday testimony meeting in the branch Church of Christ, Scientist, where I am a member, someone gave a testimony I could identify with. She spoke of her recovery from an apparent stroke and the challenges she had faced because of immobility. I was startled because her brief description brought to mind a most beautiful healing I had several years ago of a similar condition, and I hoped I had been duly grateful.

This prompted me to think over past blessings, and as I went through the years, from child raising to retirement, I remembered one healing after another. I began to realize that the most challenging had brought the greatest rewards and spiritual progress.

The circumstances that first brought us to Christian Science occurred when our eldest daughter was suffering from polio. The doctors pronounced her incurable. She was seventeen years old then, and we were told that she should spend the remainder of her life in a back brace to keep her spine from curving. I told the doctors we were considering Christian Science treatment. They said that if we could give her comfort and peace of mind, it would be a good thing to do, but they said nothing could restore her full health. The last remark as we left to seek help in Christian Science was lovingly and somewhat apologetically stated: "I am sorry, but we must register your daughter as incurable on the records of the city." With the help of a Christian Science practitioner our daughter was completely healed, and we all started attending the local branch church. Incidentally, this same daughter has four grown children of her own now. She plays a good game of tennis regularly, with no handicaps, and is an ardent Christian Scientist.

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