Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
About eleven years ago I was employed as a secretary in an...
About eleven years ago I was employed as a secretary in an office. A severe skin irritation developed on my left hand. Since I am a secretary and my hands are constantly in view, I was quite embarrassed. I had treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, but I apparently was so busy making a reality of the condition that I wasn't responding to her good work. I would go to her office and cry because I was so miserable.
Then one Sunday in church as the First Reader read from I John, third chapter (verse 2), "Beloved, now are we the sons of God" (as I had heard it read for thirty years), I suddenly realized that this applied to man, to my own true selfhood, that man is the son of God right now. And if this is true, how could I possibly be manifesting anything so unlike Him? It wasn't more than a few days before my hands were white and normal again.
About four years ago when I was studying the Lesson-Sermon on "Mind" one day during the so-called hay fever season, I suddenly was so uplifted with the thought of Mind being God, God being All, and Mind being All, that I knew I could be healed of this ailment. I immediately called a practitioner and requested help. I had suffered from hay fever for thirty-five years, and I saw it was time to call a halt. How could pollen affect me if God is the only cause? God doesn't cause problems. One treatment was sufficient. That was the last time I experienced the symptoms. A time or two the following year I had to "stand porter at the door of thought" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 392), but the error never got in.
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
October 7, 1967 issue
View Issue-
Deep Joyousness
JOSEPH G. HEARD
-
A TORCHLIGHT
Donalda von Poellnitz
-
The Water of Life
JEAN M. SNYDER
-
"Am I a God at hand?"
PAUL AGNEW RANDALL
-
Dating—on a Firm Foundation
PRISCILLA A. ALEXANDER
-
An Interview: with a Novelist
with contributions from Henrietta Buckmaster
-
Taking Our Stand
Helen Wood Bauman
-
"With God's help I can do it!"
Alan A. Aylwin
-
In 1916 a very good acquaintance of mine sent a package of...
Oscar Johannessen
-
My gratitude to Christian Science is beyond any words to express
Mary Elizabeth Machin
-
When a young girl, I was riding horseback on a barren hill one...
Beatrice Warren Dilcock
-
The study and practice of Christian Science constantly helps...
Lola Ann Frye with contributions from Elaine L. Frye
-
As a young girl I longed to have a religion that had proof of its...
Beryl R. Margetts
-
Signs of the Times
Frank Halliday Ferris
