Testimony of Healing February 2, 1974 Issue

Once while I was looking for golf balls in some bushes, I accidentally...

Bryan Day with contributions from Erma H. Drake

Once while I was looking for golf balls in some bushes, I accidentally put my hand in a wasps nest, and five or six wasps crawled onto my arm. Four of them stung me. After I ran out of the bushes, I knew that God's creatures could not harm each other. I thought about this for a while and then said "the scientific statement of being," found in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, a couple of times. Part of it reads (p. 468): "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." I thought about this, too, and then played another nine holes of golf with my friend. After we were finished, I didn't feel any pain and could see only two small red marks where the wasps had stung me.

One afternoon at basketball practice a friend noticed a lump behind my knee. Another friend said he had had one like it and that it had been very painful. Another boy there said, "Oh, Bryan is a 'Christian Science' and he doesn't have pain!" Although this friend doesn't know the difference between Christian Science and Christian Scientists, he's noticed that I haven't experienced pain in working out my problems.

When I got home, my mother and I looked in the Concordance to Science and Health under "lump." We found this sentence (p. 329): "A little leaven leavens the whole lump." We hadn't been in Christian Science very long, and this statement meant to us that it doesn't take much understanding to heal an illness if we love and trust God. Two days later my mother asked me how I was, and I noticed that the lump was very small. Shortly afterward it disappeared completely. We were very grateful that you don't have to be in Christian Science for years before you can heal.

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