Testimony of Healing July 30, 1966 Issue

I am grateful for the many avenues of assistance The Mother...

Hazel H. Davis

I am grateful for the many avenues of assistance The Mother Church provides for the inspiration of its members and the world.

My first interest in Christian Science was sparked by a subscription to The Christian Science Monitor given me by a friend. I was drawn by a religious article on one The Home Forum pages. I got in touch with my friend, and she took me to a Wednesday evening testimony meeting at a branch church. From then on, I began to attend church regularly. My next avenue of assistance was a Sentinel. Then came membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church. Class instruction followed, which enables one to do better healing work for himself and others. Several years later, I had the privilege of serving a branch church as First Reader.

Once I visited some members of my family who had been bedridden for two weeks suffering from a form of influenza, and on my way back to town I thought, "If only they were Christian Scientists, this would not happen to them." The next day the same illness hit me hard, and I realized it was because I had given it reality. I spent a miserable day and part of a night before I awoke to the fact that "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me from the law of sin and death" (Rom. 8:2). This truth led me to a passage from the chapter on Prayer in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 14): "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well." I went back to bed and slept the rest of the night and awoke refreshed and well, able to go about my regular duties at church for the Sunday service.

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