Testimony of Healing December 30, 1972 Issue

I wish to tell of a healing brought about last year by my own...

Gladys Burbach

I wish to tell of a healing brought about last year by my own prayerful metaphysical work. I had evidently allowed myself to be taken in by talk on the TV concerning a flu epidemic on the way and the dire results if one got the bug. In a short time I began to manifest all the symptoms.

I immediately began to declare the truth as taught in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. In answer to the question "What is man?" she writes (p. 475): "The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness."

At first I felt I wasn't having much success in my work, and as Second Reader in my church I wondered if I should alert someone to stand by in case I was not available on Sunday. Immediately I challenged these erroneous thoughts and said aloud, "Why, I would be a hearer of the word, and not a doer!" Our lesson on Sunday had included this passage from the Bible: "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was" (James 1:22–24). I knew that I had worked in Science to behold my real being, but that I had forgotten that it was God's reflection I had beheld, and not a sick mortal.

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