Testimony of Healing January 14, 1967 Issue

Christian Science was presented to me over forty years ago by...

Alice M. Kaler

Christian Science was presented to me over forty years ago by an aunt whom I went to visit. Although I felt no need of it at the time, I did turn to it about ten years later when I was living with a cousin who encouraged me to attend Christian Science church services with her.

My first healing was that of corns on every toe of both feet and between my toes as well. I hobbled around for several months in agony before deciding to call on a Christian Science practitioner for treatment. I remember her saying to me over the telephone, "Why don't you dig them out?" I wondered at the time why she said that, for it seemed she was asking me to do something in a way which was not quite the way things are done in Christian Science; but it soon came to me what she really meant was that I should dig out of my thinking the wrong thoughts that had been handling me for a long time. As a result of her help and my faithful study of the weekly Lesson-Sermons, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, the corns disappeared within a very short time.

Another healing was of extreme pain and stiffness in my lower back and legs. I was unable to walk or even sit or stand in comfort, and even though I spent hours studying the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, the pain persisted for three days. At the end of the third day, while I was pondering some of the statements I had been reading, my thought turned to these words on page 393 of the textbook: "Mind is the master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority." In the same paragraph we read, "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good." The words "exercise," "rise," and "resist" arrested my attention—all denoting activity. I realized then that just reading and going over the lessons was not enough. I must use my understanding and apply the truths given in the lessons to this particular belief. I said: "All right, Father-Mother God, I will 'rise in the strength of Spirit' and resist this error. Pain is not good, God never made it, and so man doesn't have it; and I refuse to pamper myself another minute."

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