Testimony of Healing July 24, 1971 Issue

Christian Science Reading Rooms throughout the world are...

Alfred Akon

Christian Science Reading Rooms throughout the world are fulfilling an important purpose of giving spiritual refreshment to the weary pilgrim. I formed the Reading Room habit when on tour giving concerts. No sooner had I checked into a hotel than I would locate a Reading Room.

A healing I had a number of years ago took place after I had struggled with a physical condition for several days. The thought came to me to visit one of the Reading Rooms and stay there until I experienced a healing. I studied and worked prayerfully for about two and a half hours until my thinking was elevated. Finally I clearly saw that there was no sick matter or well matter, no good matter or bad matter, no young matter or old matter, and, in fact, that I was not a mortal, needing to be healed. The physical healing followed my change of thought. With the acceptance and acknowledgment of my undisturbed, perfect spiritual selfhood, I was healed. I truly knew that in Him I "live, and move, and have [my] being" (Acts 17:28).

At another time I had an attack of influenza so severe that I was unable to sleep or rest through the night. Treatment was asked for from a Christian Science practitioner fifteen hundred miles away. Despite a sense of weakness and much coughing, it was necessary for me to attend an important rehearsal in the morning. When I returned home in the afternoon, exhaustion seemed to engulf me.

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