Testimony of Healing May 20, 1985 Issue

One Sunday morning a few years ago, quite unexpectedly...

MARY HAUGHTON with contributions from DAVID HAUGHTON

One Sunday morning a few years ago, quite unexpectedly and without warning I was taken ill during a service at our branch church. With the help of an usher I was able to leave and get into my family's car. After that I remember nothing. I was taken home by the family and put into bed. Then a Christian Science practitioner was called to pray for me.

By morning I had regained consciousness, but one of my eyes had closed completely. The other eye was almost closed, and my legs were completely useless. The practitioner continued to pray for me. However, I did not improve but seemed to decline until I felt I had reached the lowest ebb of human existence. Over a period of two and a half months, first one and then another practitioner lovingly helped me, but there was no outward evidence of improvement.

At last I felt led to ask my son, who is a devoted Christian Scientist, to pray for me himself. (The practitioner who was helping me at the time was kindly dismissed.) The following afternoon my son read me the story of David and Goliath in the Bible (see I Sam., chap. 17) and the article "There is no Matter" in Unity of Good by Mary Baker Eddy (pp. 31–36). My thought was spiritually awakened. From then on each day, and sometimes many times a day, verses from the Bible and passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and Mrs. Eddy's other writings were read to me. The Bible Lesson, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, and hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal were among the things that were regularly shared with me.

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