Testimony of Healing June 23, 1956 Issue

It is indeed cause for gratitude to...

Iva Covington Porter

It is indeed cause for gratitude to be able to share an experience of healing with seekers after God's kingdom. I wish to tell how self-righteousness was stilled.

Jesus once said (Matt. 16:24), "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." Early in my study of Christian Science I felt that I had a cross to bear. It was in the form of an unhappy relationship in my place of employment. The suggestion of not being in my rightful place kept asserting itself until I was voicing to others the desire to seek another position. I did this for several days, and during a week-end holiday I self-righteously decided to look for another place.

While doing so, I had an accident and dislocated a kneecap. Excruciating pain followed, and the help of a Christian Science practitioner was requested. During the night, the swelling of my knee reached alarming proportions, and my suffering was acute. A practitioner was called to my bedside.

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