Testimony of Healing May 5, 1986 Issue

More than sixty years ago a copy of the Christian Science textbook,...

JOYCE KNIFFEN

More than sixty years ago a copy of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, was given to my parents as a wedding present. For the next three years, depending upon the mood of my mother when she cleaned the living room, the book rested either on an end table or in the bookshelves. Then my father contracted pleurisy, and there was great concern whether he would recover.

One evening my father's employer, a Christian Scientist, called to visit. That particular day the textbook was visible on an end table. Recognizing the book, the man asked if my parents had read it. When they said they had not, he recommended to them that the answer to my father's health problem might be found within its pages. That began their earnest study of Christian Science. My father was quickly and completely healed as a result, and both parents became dedicated students of Christian Science from that time on. (My mother's mother also became interested in Science at this time.)

In the more than twenty years since my first testimony was published in a Christian Science periodical, I have experienced and been witness to many evidences of divine Mind's harmonizing, regulating, sustaining, directing, healing power.

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