Testimony of Healing June 14, 1982 Issue

"The 'still, small voice' of scientific thought...

VIRGINIA H. FARLEY with contributions from MINARD FARLEY, CAROLYN PEDERSON

"The 'still, small voice' of scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean to the globe's remotest bound" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 559). This statement was proved true in my life. Scientific thought reached halfway around the world to bring me out of a coma as I lay in a New Zealand hospital. While traveling with my husband, I had become ill on a plane and had lapsed into unconsciousness. Airline personnel arranged for a doctor and ambulance to meet the plane, and my husband and I were transported to a hospital. After my husband had requested that no medication be given me (the doctors consented to this), he immediately called a Christian Science practitioner back in the States. She agreed to pray for me, and she reassured him with her calm trust in God.

For three days I remained in a coma and there was no apparent change. Our children had been informed of my condition and were deep in prayer. I must have felt the effects of all this loving support, as my first waking thought was one of being simply enveloped in love. At that time, I did not know where I was, nor why I was there, and I'm not sure I even knew who I was. But I wasn't even curious—I just felt the great love of God. My next awareness was of a young nurse standing at the foot of my bed, looking up earnestly at my husband and asking questions about Christian Science.

One of our daughters came to New Zealand to help support the healing work, and she spent most of her time during the week she was there reading to me from the Bible, Science and Health, and the Christian Science periodicals. She and my husband were with me, reading and voicing spiritual truths, throughout the long days and evenings. It was comforting to know that, because of the time difference, prayers were being continued through the night by our family back home.

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