Testimony of Healing November 29, 1969 Issue

The effectiveness of placing our complete trust in God was...

Sibyl J. Brasfield

The effectiveness of placing our complete trust in God was proved recently by the healing of one of our children in Christian Science. It is a marvelous thing to ponder that the smallest bit of truth, seen and felt, can do much good.

One afternoon our one-year-old awoke from his nap, covered with welts and redness. My first thought was to declare "the scientific statement of being" as given on page 468 of the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, which opens with the words, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter." The truths of this statement temporarily erased my fears, but in the back of my mind I was speculating as to what might have caused the allergic reaction. During the afternoon there was continued redness and itching, and the child was not able to rest.

After dinner I phoned a Christian Science practitioner, who asked me to study Mrs. Eddy's answer to the question "What is man?" in the chapter entitled "Recapitulation" in the textbook. Within this definition is a line that speaks of the true man as "that which has not a single quality underived from Deity" (p. 475). This particular line captured my attention, especially the word "underived." One dictionary defines the word "derive" as "to take origin." Thus the child of God could not have anything that does not take its origin or proceed from God. And since the allness of God, good, excludes the possibility of allergy, so the child of God reflects this natural exclusion.

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