Testimony of Healing February 2, 1981 Issue

At a time when the Asian flu was being widely...

JOAN DAVIS PUTNAM

At a time when the Asian flu was being widely publicized, I heard on the news an account of the symptoms. That evening one of our small children evidenced these symptoms. My husband and I both prayed for her until she was able to go to sleep.

When I went to bed some time later, however, I lay awake for a while, mentally wrestling with the specific beliefs associated with this illness and earnestly trying to hold to the truth that God and man are ever at one. Finally I went to sleep, only to be wakened later that night by our daughter's crying. When I went to the child's room, I found her delirious.

As I prayed, a passage that I had been studying and thinking about from The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany by Mary Baker Eddy came to mind (p. 242): "You can never demonstrate spirituality until you declare yourself to be immortal and understand that you are so. Christian Science is absolute; it is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom." I physically turned from the child for a moment and reasoned: Then, this child is a spiritual idea right now!

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