Testimony of Healing June 15, 1963 Issue

For all the blessings that Christian Science...

Constance Mary Davis

For all the blessings that Christian Science has brought into my life, I am extremely grateful. At one time, I seemed to be experiencing the symptoms of sciatica, and it was impossible for me to walk without severe pain. A practitioner's help was sought, but the continued severity of the pain caused me to turn temporarily away from Christian Science. I had a medical diagnosis, and the specialist said I had a slipped disk. Of the three alternative remedies he offered, I chose to go to bed for five weeks. When I had been in bed the prescribed time and was no better, I spoke to the practitioner again, but she was just about to go away on holiday.

A short time after that, while I was lying in bed one day feeling that God had quite forsaken me, these thoughts came very clearly to me: What are you doing lying here? This is not what Christian Science has taught you. God holds man harmonious and perfect, as the moon and the stars are held harmoniously in their ordered places.

I saw this truth with such clarity that I got out of bed, dressed, and went downstairs, although still in great pain, and I found I could sit comfortably on a chair; this had not been possible previously. I knew the healing had taken place in my consciousness. To avoid having to walk around near my home with a walking stick, I went to stay with my sister, who is a Christian Scientist. I continued to study earnestly; and in about three weeks' time the physical symptoms had completely disappeared, and there has been no return of them in the eleven years since.

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