Testimony of Healing August 10, 1981 Issue

There have been many wonderful healings during...

ADELE PINKERTON BUTLER

There have been many wonderful healings during the past years. An outstanding one was of apparent blood poisoning.

Just before retiring one evening, I had finished giving myself a pedicure when the scissors slipped and cut down into the skin beside my toenail. The next morning when I dressed to go to the office the toe was a little sensitive, but I became so busy at work later in the day that I thought no more about it. That evening, however, I found I could not get my shoe back on. Also, my leg was swollen to the knee and discolored. I walked with great discomfort.

At that time my father was not a Christian Scientist, and my mother was just beginning to study Science after seeing the healings I was having. Now I knew I had to turn to Christian Science completely and not look personally to my parents for aid. As soon as possible I went to my room and began studying; affirming the spiritual facts in "the scientific statement of being" as found on page 468 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I reached out to divine Love, God, for comfort and the thought that came was to sing hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal. I started with Mrs. Eddy's seven poems set to music as hymns and ended by singing Hymn No. 382, which begins, "What is thy birthright, man, /Child of the perfect One"—knowing that I was that child.