Testimony of Healing January 10, 1970 Issue

It is sixteen years since my last testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel...

Anne Sylvia Lindsay

It is sixteen years since my last testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel and twenty-five years since my first. I have continued a life dedicated to Christian Science, which has met my every need when understandingly applied.

I had a convincing experience following World War II. Very suddenly one day I was seized with severe pain. As soon as I could collect my thoughts, I met the challenge by declaring, "This just can't happen to a First Reader!" I was filling that position at the time. It never occurred to me to pray specifically for myself. Instead, I found myself declaring vehement statements of Truth to protect the office of Reader in a Church of Christ, Scientist. This work was effective. Almost immediately I was relieved of the pain. The healing was not complete, however, for I was in great fear of another attack.

A few days later I was waiting outside a large veterans' hospital. As I waited, there passed before me a continuous parade of infirmity. I was so overcome by my sympathy for those men and my abhorrence of war that I took my textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, from the glove compartment of the car in an endeavor to quiet my thought. It opened to page 373, and my gaze fell on the following: "Establish the scientific sense of health, and you relieve the oppressed organ." This seemed so irrelevant that I tried to read other things, but I found I could concentrate on nothing else. These words stood out to me as though in bold print. Finally, I said, "Father, I don't see what this is all about, but it's plain You want me to give some thought to this." I spent the rest of the time, about an hour, establishing "the scientific sense of health" in my consciousness. My errand done, I returned home.

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