Testimony of Healing January 1, 1977 Issue

A few years ago I became aware of a blemish on my back

James Lee Phillips

A few years ago I became aware of a blemish on my back. The condition enlarged considerably and I knew it must be healed. Fear of the difficulty and the fact that it was hidden from view had made me reluctant to pray consistently. I knew that in Christian Science this reluctance is known to be a phase of animal magnetism, the name for error—the deluding suggestion of a power apart from God.

I began to earnestly study the Bible, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, in order to understand and apply the truth of my relationship to God as His perfect reflection and manifestation. I could feel improvement in my thought—a growing realization of the nothingness of this condition, but the physical evidence remained.

One evening the thought came to squarely face the claim the condition represented. I recall saying to myself that there is a healing answer in Christian Science for every mortal claim to a power opposed to God's law, because this Science of Christ is God's law.

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