Testimony of Healing September 22, 1980 Issue

Not building sand castles of mortality, but building on the foundation of eternal Truth

KEITH NEALY with contributions from ANNE NEALY

As a child I attended a Christian Science Sunday School, and during college I was a member of a Christian Science college organization. I joined a local branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and for a short time taught in the Sunday School. Still, Christian Science was mostly a theory for me. I had no pressing needs, and so I never really used what I'd learned.

After college I drifted around for about five years, not knowing what to do with myself. One day I was stricken with an illness that incapacitated me. I was very fearful and thought I might die. In great mental turmoil I went at first to see some psychologists. I felt I needed some direction. They were very kind but it just didn't feel right. I felt they would show me how to live with my problem; I wanted to live without it. Then my mother telephoned and recommended I call a Christian Science practitioner. I must admit that at the time this seemed like a backward step. I thought I'd outgrown Science.

Instead I decided that for the first time in many years I would read the weekly Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly. I found a Christian Science Reading Room nearby, and after I'd read the lesson, which includes passages from the Bible and from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I felt very refreshed. Certain I was on the right track, I was now prepared to call a practitioner for help through prayer.

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