Testimony of Healing July 12, 1947 Issue

Standing in front of a petrol...

Hayem H. Lurie

Standing in front of a petrol station near Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, and chatting with the garage proprietor while my car was being filled with petrol, I experienced a sharp pain in one of my fingers. When I looked to see what had happened I noticed a mosquito leaving my finger, which was bleeding. By night my finger was swollen. I did a little work in Christian Science and retired early. At midnight I woke up suffering from fever, and the swelling had extended to my hand. I was restless and could not stay in bed. I started working now earnestly, applying all I knew of the truth to overcome the belief of poison, but instead of getting better I grew worse. I became alarmed, thinking my treatment unsuccessful and doubting my ability to help myself.

I started to pray to God to give me guidance, new ideas, and a better understanding of how to use them, and to enable me to come out of this trouble as I had been helped many times before. Of myself, I realized, I could not do anything more.

"The animate should be governed by God alone." This sentence on page 409 of our textbook. Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, came to my relief. I had noticed that short sentence for the first time only a fortnight before, and it now came again to my disturbed mind. I felt a sense of peace descending on me, and clarity of thinking returned.

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