Testimony of Healing September 25, 1995 Issue

Once when I was working in the kitchen of our farmhouse, I...

Rosemary Sholes Davis with contributions from Ronald G. Davis

Once when I was working in the kitchen of our farmhouse, I saw our two-and-a-half-year-old son going out to the back porch where he often played. Soon he came back in and clung to my side. Then he started to cry, and told me he had had a drink of juice that was now burning his mouth. I went out to find an open bottle of fly control phosphate poison that my husband used for spraying the barn area.

I picked up the child and, while embracing him, smelled the poison on his breath. In panic I yelled down to my husband in the barn to come up to the house at once. But he did not hear me.

Soon I regained control of myself and reached out to God with my whole heart in prayer. As I picked up the bottle of phosphate, I read the label, which said that in case of an emergency one should call a physician. I immediately thought of God as our only physician. A familiar description of God, given by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health, then illuminated my consciousness like a light; it is found in the Glossary of the book: "God. The great I am ; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence" (p. 587).