Testimony of Healing November 26, 1904 Issue

An evil spirit (belief) was cast out of my consciousness...

V. A. H.

An evil spirit (belief) was cast out of my consciousness recently so quickly and so completely, that I wish to send forth the healing angel (thought) in order that it may, perchance, expel this intruder, should it try to gain lodgment elsewhere. While engaged in work at the office not long ago, I began to feel sick and chilled, with violent pains in the stomach. The indications were that the ailment would bring me much suffering. It seemed as though I would have to stop work and submit to this painful and weakening condition, but I resisted. During the week my attention had been held by the words in the Lesson-Sermon (Science and Health, p. 406), "Sickness, as well as sin, involves weakness, temptation, and fall,—a loss of control over the body." I determined that I would not permit myself to think that matter had the power to give me pain any more than I would permit myself to think that matter had the power to make me sin or give me pleasure through sin. I saw that it was wrong for me to think thoughts of inharmony that made me suffer, in the same way that it was wrong to permit thoughts of evil to give me pleasure: that both sickness and sin are founded on the belief that matter governs us, and even dictates our thoughts; so the thoughts of sickness were combated with the same determination and vigor that thoughts of sin would have been. The evil thoughts were not yielded to, and found no place wherein to abide, and the fear of them then vanished; in other words, a severe attack of colic was destroyed in a few minutes by Christian Science, and the spiritual uplift followed, which always attends the overcoming and dethroning of the pretentious matter-king.

V. A. H., Washington, D. C.

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