Testimony of Healing January 7, 1956 Issue

Some time ago I experienced the...

James Christie Stack with contributions from Elizabeth Helen Stack

Some time ago I experienced the healing efficacy of Christian Science during a difficult experience. One afternoon I was stricken with a severe pain in my back. It became very difficult for me to do anything that required bending over in any way. I recalled a statement in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which reads (pp. 472, 473), "We learn in Christian Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illusion, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming to be real and identical." I refused to honor as real the physical inharmony and rejoiced in the harmony of being as taught in Christian Science.

Plans had already been made by my wife and me to take our vacation, and in spite of my discomfort we went as planned and enjoyed the entire trip, after which we returned home rested and refreshed. I experienced a great deal of freedom from pain by simply acknowledging that in truth I was already free. When I found myself moving about freely, I felt deep and heartfelt appreciation of Christian Science, which was discovered and founded by Mrs. Eddy.

It is my earnest desire as a student of Christian Science to bear living witness to this statement in Isaiah (50:4): "The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned."— James Christie Stack, Washington, District of Columbia.

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