Testimony of Healing July 8, 1950 Issue

The desire to tell of my gratitude...

Grover W. Reed

The desire to tell of my gratitude for Christian Science has been in my thought for some time.

One healing for which I am very grateful is that of appendicitis. I had slept little and eaten practically nothing for a week, and the pain was great. I was alone in a western city in a room in which there was no telephone. The practitioner who was helping me had given me a copy of "Miscellaneous Writings" by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and told me that there was healing in its pages.

Turning to page 180 of that book, I read the first article under the heading "Bible Lessons," where Mrs. Eddy took for her text John 1:12, 13: "But as many as received him. to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." As I studied this text and the article, it came to me clearly that man's true selfhood is not material, but spiritual, and therefore mental. I reasoned that since in reality I was the expression of God and therefore spiritual, I had existed long before I had had a human parent; that I would continue to exist after all my material surroundings had gone to decay.

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