Testimony of Healing June 9, 1962 Issue

In the Christian Science textbook,...

Ellen Luck Francis

In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, we read these words (p. 369): "In proportion as matter loses to human sense all entity as man, in that proportion does man become its master."

A few years ago I had an experience which made me prove the truth of the above words. A small lump appeared on the back of one of my legs. I did not do anything about it at first; but when it began to get larger and to bleed, I became fearful and asked for the help of a practitioner. She lovingly led me along the way to the realization that the condition had neither power nor presence, that God is the only power governing man, and that I must understand these truths. The fear abated, but for quite a while the condition did not improve.

One day the practitioner asked if I should like to change practitioners, and so I spoke to another one about the difficulty. Her first words to me were, "A spiritual idea cannot bleed." This truth impressed me so much that I knew I had reached the turning point in the healing. I went along doing my own prayerful work and occasionally receiving help from the practitioner to whom I first went.

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