Testimony of Healing February 18, 1967 Issue

About sixteen years ago I was visiting friends and was asked...

Thelma O. Leaton

About sixteen years ago I was visiting friends and was asked to go down into their garden to see an early bloom of an iris seedling. This garden was more than thirty feet below the street level, and there was a narrow outside stairway leading down to it On taking my first step, I lost my balance and rolled down this stairway. However, I was consciously aware that a spiritual idea could not be hurt, and this awareness prevented me from lapsing into unconsciousness.

My friend, who was following behind me, at first had great fear about my condition, but she immediately dispelled this fear with the truths of "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. When she reached me at the bottom landing, she was still declaring the statement which includes these words (p. 468): "Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal." I assured her I was all right and that could return up the stairway to the street level where my husband was waiting for me. This I did with no discomfort whatsoever, although my head was bleeding.

The following morning I was experiencing sharp pains in the region of my ribs. But the truths already declared and accepted enabled me to go about the task for which we were spending some time at our beach home. My husband was preparing an address on Christian Science, and I was typing it for him. Each day as I typed the address I accepted its healing message, declaring that each statement of Truth invigorates and heals At the completion of our task I was completely free from all injury and from all sense of ever having experienced an accident. I was conscious only of having had the opportunity to prove again the ever-available presence of the healing Christ in human consciousness.

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