Testimony of Healing June 29, 1963 Issue

About thirty years ago, as an...

Lillian G. Epstein

About thirty years ago, as an adult, I seriously applied myself to the study of Christian Science. one of the early healings for which I can never be grateful enough was that of frequent violent headaches, which had caused me untold suffering since childhood.

Another healing was that of blood poisoning in a finger. One evening, after a prolonged period of intense pain, I called the practitioner, who was endeavoring to help me discern the unreality of the condition. She advised me to study this passage on page 376 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy: "The pallid invalid, whom you declare to be wasting away with consumption of the blood, should be told that blood never gave life and can never take it away,—that Life is Spirit, and that there is more life and immortality in one good motive and act, than in all the blood which everflowed through mortal veins and simulated a corporeal sense of life."

I reasoned that there are over two billion people in the world. Then I must infer that there is more life in one good motive and act than in all the blood which flows through the veins of these people. This line of thinking brought me to the logical conclusion that it did not matter whether blood calls itself poisoned or excellent, it can never give life nor take it away.

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