Testimony of Healing August 9, 1982 Issue

As a young child I was taken by my grandmother to...

DORATHY SEIFERT NORRIS

As a young child I was taken by my grandmother to a Wednesday testimony meeting at a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Years later when I was in high school, my mother became very ill. A physician examined her and diagnosed tuberculosis in an advanced stage. She was then placed in a sanitarium some distance from home and told that she had about six months to live, even with good care.

After two months in the sanitarium, my mother requested that I come get her as she wanted to die at home. During the trip home we had to make a change of trains. As we waited at a railroad station for our transfers, I was grieved at the sight of my mother lying stretched out on a bench. I mentally reached out for some kind of help and then remembered that Christian Science testimony meeting I had attended years before, where people had told of being healed through Christian Science. I suggested to Mother that we try Christian Science—it couldn't hurt and it might help. She was too weak to talk but indicated to me that anything that I wanted to do was all right with her.

Looking in the telephone directory I found the name of a Christian Science practitioner, called him and told him of the situation. His remarks were so beautiful, so full of love and encouragement, that I lost my fear. I told Mother of the conversation, and that the practitioner had agreed to pray for her. After the two-hour ride to our hometown, Mother felt so much better and stronger that when we arrived, she got up and walked off the train exclaiming, "Well, maybe it is that Christian Science!"

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