Testimony of Healing December 15, 1956 ISSUE

One of the questions asked in...

Harold D. Shafer

One of the questions asked in our "Communion Hymn," which was written by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, reads (Poems, p. 75): "Felt ye the power of the Word?" I am very happy and grateful to be able to testify that for a period of almost forty years, on every occasion when help was needed and Christian Science was rightly applied, I have felt "the power of the Word."

One time while at work I thought that I was coming down with the grippe. I remembered Mrs. Eddy's admonition in Science and Health (p. 390), "Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law." And I did just that. I mentally denied the suggestion that I was becoming sick and declared the truth about myself as taught in Christian Science. All during the day I tried hard to let only true thoughts of God and man enter my consciousness, and before the day was over I was completely healed. I felt "the power of the Word."

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