Testimony of Healing March 30, 1981 Issue

The earliest of my Christian Science healings that...

THOMAS M. BIGGAR

The earliest of my Christian Science healings that I can recall occurred when I was in boot camp in the United States Army during the mid-fifties. I woke in the middle of the night, lying on my back completely paralyzed from head to toe. All I could move were my eyes. Instantly I began thinking of passages I knew by heart, including the twenty-third Psalm from the Bible and "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (see p. 468). As I thought through each statement, I applied the truths it contained to my problem the best I knew how. After praying for what seemed like more than half an hour, I fell asleep. When we were wakened at the usual predawn hour, I was completely free of the ailment, and it has never returned. I feel that this healing really set the stage for my natural acceptance of God's unfolding goodness during my three years of military service. One marvelous blessing was that I was unexpectedly provided with transportation from Korea to the first Far East Workshop for Christian Scientists in Tokyo.

My father was a lifelong Christian Scientist who had been healed of invalidism as a youngster in Scotland. When he moved to this country, his gratitude for restored health impelled him to become one of a small group that established Christian Science services in their community and in 1922 chartered a branch Church of Christ, Scientist.

Science was an immense aid to Dad during the economic depression of the 1930's. He had come to depend unreservedly on God for guidance and was receptive to the practical inspiration that derives from the one Mind. In turn, all through the Depression my father was able to keep his business open, meet his obligations, and pay his employees. For a time, he even gave free use of his feed store and packing house for distribution of Government-issued supplies to needy families. To me this was a grand example of our Leader's words (Science and Health, p. 206), "In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,—Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply."

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