Testimony of Healing November 14, 1953 Issue

On page 472 of the Christian Science...

Harold M. Tukesbury with contributions from Beatrice L. Tukesbury

On page 472 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says of error, "It is that which seemeth to be and is not;" and on page 103 she says, "As named in Christian Science, animal magnetism or hypnotism is the specific term for error, or mortal mind." I am very grateful that our Leader has employed a term for error which so impersonalizes it that we can recognize its unreality.

I awoke one night with indigestion. At first mortal mind deceived me into doing nothing about it; then when the discomfort persisted I found myself praying about it as indigestion, as a physical condition. Naturally, such work was unfruitful, and the discomfort continued.

Then I woke up and saw the condition for what it in reality was; namely, nothing, "that which seemeth to be and is not." Work was taken up along the line that there is no animal magnetism; that there is only one Mind, God; and that no suggestion of mortal mind could impose itself on my enlightened thought. The indigestion was dissipated immediately.

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