Testimony of Healing December 21, 1963 Issue

I remember having my first healing...

Barbara T. Hathaway

I remember having my first healing in Christian Science when I was a child of six. It was that of a headache. Using the words of "the scientific statement of being," I prayed, and instantly the healing became complete. As the statement says (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 468): "Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual." How happy I was that God had heard me! And indeed He has heard me many times through the years. For all the blessings I have had, and particularly for the loving' encouragement of my parents in helping me to use Christian Science in my daily life, I am grateful.

Three years ago I became very ill with influenza. One night I cried out in alarm; I was afraid that I would never recover from the illness. My husband called a practitioner for me, and within the hour the fear had vanished. But the fever persisted. I prayed earnestly to realize that the truth of God is the truth of His reflection, man.

It occurred to me one morning to call for the services of a Christian Science nurse, I seemed unable to gain my peace of mind, and our two young children needed attention. In the afternoon when the house was quiet the nurse read aloud the Lesson-Sermon, provided in the Quarterly, and then the article entitled "The New Birth," found in "Miscellaneous Writings" by Mrs. Eddy. In the article is this sentence (p. 15): "What a faith-lighted thought is this! that mortals can lay off the 'old man,' until man is found to be the image of the infinite good that we name God, and the fulness of the stature of man in Christ appears." As the nurse read, the word "self-abnegation" came to me.

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