Testimony of Healing July 1, 1972 Issue

Some months ago during a festive holiday season, my wife and...

William R. Beattie with contributions from (Mrs.)Justine B. Beattie

Some months ago during a festive holiday season, my wife and I had just returned home from a brunch and I was talking to some workmen in our living room. Out of the blue I was doubled over with excruciating pain and almost passed out. When my wife saw me, she immediately declared some truths of my spiritual well-being and called a Christian Science practitioner for help. I was helped to my room, and within a half hour I was back to normal and walked to the practitioner's house and expressed gratitude for her quick, effective prayerful work for me.

Everything continued normally for the rest of the day, but early the following morning I awoke in even worse pain than I had experienced the day before. The relief had only been temporary because I had not grown Spiritward myself. I could not get comfortable in any position, and I rolled out of bed and found myself on my knees (a position that I heartily recommend in a time of need), and with all the humility and sincerity I could command I cried out, "God, whatever I am doing wrong, please show me. I want to live Your qualities and do only what is right."

Immediately the thought came to me, "If it isn't love that I'm expressing, it's hate!" Then a business associate came to mind, and I said to my wife, "I sure have been having some rocky and stony thoughts about Mr. So-and-so." Then I thought of the words from Romans (13:9): "Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

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