Testimony of Healing July 15, 2013 Issue

The 'beauty of holiness'

Polly S. Caldwell

After listening for about a year to the online Wednesday afternoon testimony service from The Mother Church, it occurred to me that it would be well not to merely sit back and enjoy all the good readings and testimonies, but to take active part. So I’m sharing this healing I had many years ago when I was in ninth grade.

While at school one Wednesday, I began to feel ill, so much so that I called my mom to come and bring me home. By dinner time, I had all the symptoms of the flu and could not eat a bite of food. Even so, I must have had some expectation of feeling better, because my main concern was studying for a test in my science class the next day.

We lived next door to our local branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Our living room looked right out at the church and parking lot. Ordinarily, I attended the Wednesday testimony meetings, but just felt too ill to go that night. I had settled myself with my schoolbooks, Bible, and Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, on the sofa in the living room. In spite of how bad I was feeling, I was not afraid to be alone when my mom left to play the organ for a service at a different branch church across town. 

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