Testimony of Healing December 31, 1979 Issue

As a young woman I developed a small lump on my back

CHERIE B. NELSON

As a young woman I developed a small lump on my back. The growth enlarged until finally it was noticeable to others. All the clothing I bought had to have a high back. Saleswomen often commented on the condition, so it came to a point where I preferred to help myself while shopping.

I realized the need to pray specifically and to turn from the material evidence, which I was often tempted to observe. On page 261 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy urges, "Look away from the body into Truth and Love, the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality." I endeavored to do just this. From time to time I asked for treatment from a Christian Science practitioner. Each year after my Christian Science students' association meeting, I felt especially inspired, and afterward I would pray earnestly for myself.

One Wednesday evening at our branch church testimony meeting I heard a testimony that really made sense to me. The speaker said she had had a spot on her hand that a beauty operator told her should be removed. The Scientist left the beauty parlor silently thanking her heavenly Father for being awakened to the fact that there was something in her thought that needed correction. Then she prayed humbly to be shown what it was. Soon she found that a specific misunderstanding of man's spiritual nature as God's idea, which she had unwittingly harbored, was uncovered and destroyed; and within a week the spot was gone.

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