Testimony of Healing August 11, 1973 Issue

As I listened one Sunday morning to a Christian Science radio...

Leila Gray Clifton with contributions from Charlotte Diamond

As I listened one Sunday morning to a Christian Science radio program entitled "The Truth that Heals," I remembered that I too had been healed, as speakers on this program had been, through the spiritual understanding of "the scientific statement of being" found on page 468 in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

Two years ago I was having prayerful help from a Christian Science practitioner. The trouble was not diagnosed, but it was an internal condition which gave me such distress that I could not move about normally. One night I awoke in such discomfort that I was very fearful, for this seemed to be a serious attack. I immediately denied the error by repeating the words of that healing statement, but they were just that, words only, since I could not seem to think logically.

Realizing the haziness of my thinking, I stopped and prayed, "Dear Father, help me." I then called the practitioner, even though it was late in the night. The fear and urgency I felt was evident in my voice, I feel sure, for the practitioner began at once to repeat with great assurance and certainty, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter," and so on to the closing words of "the scientific statement of being": "Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual."

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