Testimony of Healing September 16, 1972 Issue

At the time my husband was working for an advanced degree...

Anne Elizabeth Davidson Kidder

At the time my husband was working for an advanced degree from Columbia University, we were living in New York City in an apartment situated very close to the campus. During the spring semester there were riots and a general upheaval of campus affairs. Over a period of many weeks, buildings were occupied by students, and confrontations between students, faculty, police, and the general public occurred. As a Christian Scientist I prayed daily about this situation, which seemed so close to my husband and me.

One day my body became inflamed with a skin disease. During the morning I tried to keep my thinking in line with some of the truths I had been taught in Christian Science. Later in the day I felt quite ill, and I was tormented by constant itching. I asked for treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, and members of my family lovingly read articles from Christian Science literature to me. Because I could not sleep, I listened to them as they read all night long, and this enabled me to keep my thinking off the constant irritation.

The next day it was suggested to me that I had taken the Columbia University crisis personally upon my shoulders, that I had reacted to and become immersed in the tension, unrest, and upset. I began to realize that the poisons of hate, resistance, unrest, and dissatisfaction had been building up in me for a long time. My studies in Christian Science about the university and its problems had brought to the surface several errors I had been ignoring in myself. My body was exhibiting physically exactly what my thinking was undergoing.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

When my husband and I moved to a large metropolitan city,...