Testimony of Healing April 1, 1944 Issue

While traveling on the road...

Hayeim H. Lurie

While traveling on the road passing through the Southern Rhodesian bush, I encountered a man who was ill. He was a correspondent for a Polish newspaper, was traveling from Central Africa on a bicycle, and had contracted a contagious disease. He asked for water. I filled his bag with water, and asked if he needed some money or food. He refused to take anything but asked for another drink of water out of my waterbag, as he wanted to conserve his own supply, not knowing how long he would have to stay in the bush. I let him have his drink out of my bag.

Later on in the day I became thirsty and had a drink out of my bag. Then the thought came to me that the man had said his disease was contagious. In the evening, when I arrived in the nearest town, I felt sick and became full of fear. The next morning, symptoms of blackwater fever started to develop. I asked a Christian Science practitioner in the town to help me, but for some time the condition did not yield. I became very exhausted and weak.

I again asked the same practitioner to go on with the treatments, telling her of my condition. She replied that she was doing her best, but advised me to look for the healing in the week's Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. The subject for the week was "Love." After going through the Lesson and following up the points brought out in it, I could see clearly that in helping the sick man on the road I had performed an act of love; and by so doing I had identified myself with the highest law of God, Love. Now, mortal mind had tried to put upon me a law of contagion, a human law, man-made, which did not proceed from God, and would punish me for helping my neighbor. But what was such a human law in comparison with God's law? Had it the power or support of God's eternal laws? Seeing very clearly that it had not, I stopped working any more for a healing, and with the words, "Let God's law work," I lay down on my bed. Suddenly I felt as though a power outside of myself came over me, and an assured feeling that I was healed came like a change of thought, and although the symptoms lasted for another two days, in that moment the healing was accomplished. I have never forgotten the few moments of this experience. It was like newness of life, and the memory of it has always remained as a guide and comforter in my progressive experiences. I am deeply thankful to God.

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