Testimony of Healing August 29, 1994 Issue

At the time when our daughters were young and just starting...

Elaine Klaus

At the time when our daughters were young and just starting school, the authorities sent a note home that some of the children were quarantined because of whooping cough. Our girls began to manifest all the symptoms. We requested the prayerful support of a Christian Science practitioner. The symptoms were very uncomfortable, but the girls remained joyful. We prayed together many times a day, and were grateful for all the testimonies of healing in the Christian Science magazines. I remembered this statement from Science and Health, page 412: "If the case is that of a young child or an infant, it needs to be met mainly through the parent's thought, silently or audibly on the aforesaid basis of Christian Science." (The statement refers to previous discussion of the need to insist prayerfully that disease is unreal.) It was our responsibility to provide the best care for our children, and that certainly included the spiritual demand to see and understand the truth of their spiritual identities.

The practitioner reminded my husband and me of Jesus' days and nights in the wilderness without food; God had cared for him, and God would care for these little girls, because He was Love and because they were His precious ideas, spiritual and perfect. Both girls were soon well. It was necessary for them to be examined by a doctor before returning to school, and he was surprised to find them healed so rapidly.

Another healing for which I am most grateful involved a condition of hemorrhaging I had had for about six weeks. One day I collapsed. My daughter helped me into bed, and at my request phoned a practitioner, who asked me to study the description of man given in Science and Health. It begins, "Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements" (p. 475). I was also asked if I was really grateful for God's goodness.

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