Testimony of Healing January 27, 1940 Issue

Mrs. Eddy has written in the Manual of The Mother Church...

Edgar A. Mills

Mrs. Eddy has written in the Manual of The Mother Church under the heading "Alertness to Duty" (Art. VIII, Sect. 6), "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind."

Because my wife had had a wonderful healing of rheumatism before we were married, her mother started sending us the Christian Science Sentinel, which I enjoyed reading. Although teaching a Sunday school class in an orthodox church at this time, I would read the Sentinel and smoke in the evening. On page 466 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy has said of "truth and error, good and evil," that "these contrasting pairs of terms represent contraries, as Christian Science reveals, which neither dwell together nor assimilate." My acknowledgment of the truth presented in the Sentinel drove away a smoking habit indulged for many years. Shortly after this healing I had an attack of sore throat, which would ordinarily have kept me from my work, so I decided to trust God for my healing, and not to resort to medicine. The healing was much quicker than formerly. Then I was healed of indigestion. Previously I took medicine after every meal and was afraid to eat certain foods. I have for many years enjoyed every kind of food served to me. In 1936 I was healed of a swollen leg, pneumonia, and a broken toe.

I am grateful for the protection received from knowing that "God combines all-power or potency, all-science or true knowledge, all-presence" (ibid., p. 466).

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