Testimony of Healing July 24, 1948 Issue

Two most helpful lessons may be...

Jonno Hodgson

Two most helpful lessons may be learned from each of the following healings. First, never despair, never give up your efforts; and secondly, the truth you need to know for any given problem is always present and possible of being understood and utilized now.

That druglike habit of biting one's fingernails results from a diseased state of mortal consciousness which needs to be replaced by a realization of divine accord. I bit my nails from a time before I went to kindergarten until some years after I commenced the study of Christian Science upon leaving school. I had done much work, much praying, to heal this condition, apparently to no avail. Never once was I discouraged, but several friends of our family would ask me about my problem, saying, "Just know that it is a bad habit, and that bad habits are not associated with man." That advice was not the divine inspiration needed to overcome this ingrained error. When I saw that all power, parentage, and authority is in and of God, Spirit, man's only creative, infinite Principle, I was convinced that I was completely and permanently healed. That was many years ago, and there has been no slightest return of the difficulty.

The other healing was of corns, with which I had been afflicted since boyhood, and during the several years preceding my healing I suffered agony. The healing came about in this manner. During one of my lunch hours I had been delivering a message to a Christian Science practitioner, and just as I was leaving she was divinely directed to mention this particular complaint. I answered, "That is something I have yet to overcome." She took me to a window and said: "How would you go over to so-and-so's place? Wouldn't you first have to do it mentally? You couldn't cross the street without doing it mentally, could you? Going over there is a mental process; start reasoning from that angle." I felt that the advice was fraught with spiritual truth; yet at the moment I could not concede the connection between this reasoning and what I knew to be the basis of all Christian Science healing, the realization of perfect God and perfect man, man who is entirely spiritual, not a physical body to be taken across the roadway. Yet the practitioner did not say to make this human reasoning the basis of healing, but said to start reasoning from the mental angle. And that was advice she saw I needed, because till then I had been fixing my gaze on a physical problem.

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