Testimony of Healing February 14, 1970 Issue

The importance of taking my stand for Christian Science was...

Ethel A. Thompson

The importance of taking my stand for Christian Science was brought to me rather forcibly recently. Because of a fall at the office where I work, I was taken to a hospital for X rays and was told I had a fractured hip. The doctor told me that they would have to operate the next morning to put in steel pins and I would have to be in a cast for three months or more.

As soon as I could think clearly, I knew that this was not what I wanted. I knew that steel pins and plaster casts were no part of God's perfect creation. I knew that I would have to take a definite stand for Christian Science.

Turning to God in prayer brought me such a feeling of release that I was freed from any sense of fear or pain. I started repeating every statement I could remember from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I repeated the "Daily Prayer" from the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy and "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health many times during the night. The prayer by Mrs. Eddy reads (Art. VIII, Sect. 4): "'Thy kingdom come;' let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in me, and rule out of me all sin; and may Thy Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and govern them!" The answer to the question (p. 468), "What is the scientific statement of being?" includes these words: "Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual." I concentrated on replacing any claims of surgery with divine Truth.