Testimony of Healing March 14, 1988 Issue

My first healing occurred many years ago when I was at...

Ruth Elizabeth Stackhouse

My first healing occurred many years ago when I was at boarding school. Before I left for school, my oldest sister, who was very interested in Christian Science and who had had a beautiful healing of facial paralysis, gave me the name of a Christian Science practitioner. She said this was someone I could write to for help if I wanted to.

That winter I came down with flu, which quickly turned into pneumonia. Before I was taken to the school infirmary I sent a note to the practitioner. For two days and nights I was quite ill indeed. But the third night I slept well all night long. The nurse took my temperature the next morning. I remember her look of astonishment and incredulity when she found the thermometer registered normal. I had been healed. I later learned that the practitioner had got my letter and had prayed for me on that third day.

Immediately after my recovery I began to study Christian Science. Though there have been many difficult problems through the years, there has been a deeply felt joy in resolving them through prayer.

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