Unity of LO Lesson
The Story of Unity
By James Dillet Freeman
Their Healing Work
When people came to the Fillmores for help, they caught the simple faith of this believing family, and soon a constant stream of the sick were coming to the Unity offices. By the time the Fillmores moved their offices to the house on McGee Street, a crowd was coming every day to see if some of the healing faith of these two praying people might touch and restore their bodies. By the time Charles arrived at 10 or 11 in the morning, there were always at least a dozen persons waiting for him in the reception room, which was used for the meetings on Sundays. He had his office in the front parlor. There he took these persons one by one and listened to them and prayed with them. He knew that he of himself could do nothing, but his whole prayer and his whole life were consecrated to gaining a spirit of oneness with the God of life, whose power can bring perfection to mind and body.
All day long, into that little office went aching, often despairing, men and women. Perhaps they had suffered pain for years, perhaps they had been told that they had no chance to live. They went into the office fear-racked and suffering, and they found there a little, quiet, kindly man who invited them to sit down beside him and tell him what was wrong.
Charles Fillmore said that it often seemed to him that he said very little. Sometimes the patient spent the whole time telling him what was wrong. But this, Charles Fillmore always silently denied; and he always prayed Usually he managed to get the one who was asking for help to pray also. They would sit still together and in that creative silence they would speak the powerful words of Truth that, as Charles Fillmore had come to know, carried healing.
When those people rose to go, fifteen minutes or a half-hour later, often they were not the same persons who had come slumped and desperate through the door. Almost always, they went forth renewed in spirit and often they went forth renewed in body too; for in this small office in Kansas City the miracles of which the Bible speaks were coming to pass again: the lame were being made to walk, the dumb to speak, and the blind to see.
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By: Maya Angelou
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