Testimony of Healing November 29, 1952 Issue

I shall always be grateful for my...

Walter L. Williams

I shall always be grateful for my first healing brought about through the study and application of Christian Science. It taught me the vast difference between a prayer of pleading for God to do something and the prayer of acceptance of good already here and available, as revealed in Christian Science.

Suffering daily from pain, which a doctor diagnosed as arthritis, I turned to God in prayer for relief from the affliction which had come to me. Unable to go to work, I spent most of one day in fervent prayer. My prayer was a petition to God, asking Him to recognize my predicament and heal me of it, and it served only to center my thought on the physical condition. Instead of being healed, I became worse as the day went on, until I was suffering almost beyond that which I could bear. There followed a sense of disappointment that, although I had done all I knew how to do, God had not answered my prayer and my suffering was worse.

The next morning I decided to try Christian Science. I called a practitioner, made an appointment, and went to his office. He lovingly explained the necessity of my gaining a clearer understanding of God and of man in His image and likeness. He told me of the nature of God and referred to Mary Baker Eddy's definition of Him in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 465): "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

During the ten years that I have...