Testimony of Healing November 12, 1904 Issue

I wish to give an experience which shows that the so-called...

J. W. Mahin

I wish to give an experience which shows that the so-called laws attached by mortal mind to forms of matter can be proved null and void. A few years ago, while employed as instructor in chemistry in the high school of another city, I was doing some experimental work on ores. While talking to my wife, who happened to be with me in the laboratory, I carelessly brought together in a flask two chemicals in a heated condition, as a result of which there was evolved a copious volume of chlorine gas. This gas, which is held to be very active and poisonous, came so quickly that I inhaled considerable of it. I at once entered a mental denial of its supposed power and continued with my work, feeling scarcely any ill effects. On going home a few hours later, quite a high fever manifested itself but this was quickly destroyed. I remembered that my professor of chemistry at the university was the victim of an accident with a similar but less active gas, which resulted in broken health and finally death from bronchial and pulmonary troubles. I am very grateful to Christian Science for showing us a way of escape from the discords of material belief,—a way into the harmony of Spirit,—and to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for living so pure a life that this revelation could come to this age through her.

J. W. Mahin, Denver, Col.

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