Testimony of Healing July 30, 1949 Issue

Obedient to demand for proof. Healed of cough at lecture

Mary Westbrook Kline

"'Thy kingdom come;' let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in me, and rule out of me all sin; and may Thy Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and govern them!" If this "Daily Prayer," which our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, gives us in the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. VIII, Sect. 4), is given a place in our daily thoughts, it will establish the Christ in our consciousness, and the Christ will lead the way to a fuller understanding of brotherly love.

One winter a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church was giving a lecture in a neighboring city. I had made plans to attend, inviting several of my friends to go along. Then mortal mind suggested that I would annoy the lecturer with the paroxysms of coughing which I had been subject to for several weeks. I constantly held to the truth of man's true selfhood as God's image and likeness, realizing that I had nothing to give out but good and good could not annoy anyone, nor could I attach any false sense of error to God's idea, man. I held to the thought that God's Word would "enrich the affections of all mankind, and govern them."

When I entered the auditorium, these words came to me: Let "'Thy kingdom come;'" and, "let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in me, and rule out of me all sin." In the first part of the lecture, the lecturer quoted from the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" by Mrs. Eddy (p. 233), "Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power." I felt at that moment that the demand was for me to fulfill Christ's teachings in the higher proof of healing. My healing was realized. Not once did I cough during the entire lecture, nor did the false desire to cough worry me any more.

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