Testimony of Healing December 4, 1978 ISSUE

Fifteen years ago I was so completely healed of a crippling...

Cherie B. Shindell

Fifteen years ago I was so completely healed of a crippling disease that even the memory of the condition had been erased. When it was recalled, I gave a testimony at the next Wednesday evening meeting of our branch Church of Christ, Scientist. As I recall, I struggled with symptoms of arthritis for about two years, making very little headway, even though I was reading the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly and articles from the periodicals in every spare moment. Then a message came to me quite clearly: "Put first things first." I pondered the meaning of this and realized that in sharing the joys of my husband's successful retirement, I had drifted into laxity, not setting aside a specific time for prayer and study.

So I began to rise before daylight for an hour of quiet study. As our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, counsels in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 1), "Prayer, watching, and working, combined with self-immolation, are God's gracious means for accomplishing whatever has been successfully done for the Christianization and health of mankind." This study and prayer proved to be effective, for, while there was no sudden realization of healing, the demonstration was complete; and for some years now I have led an active, vigorous life.

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