Testimony of Healing January 10, 1983 Issue

After seeing the healing my husband experienced...

HARRIETTE T. MAXWELL

After seeing the healing my husband experienced in 1957 through returning to the study of Christian Science, our family began attending Sunday services at a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, with him. Several months later we moved, and during the summer I attended Wednesday testimony meetings at another branch church. Although I was not a student of Christian Science or particularly interested in becoming one at that time, I often would recall a statement I'd heard read at the meeting or something a testifier had said and would apply it to situations I was facing then. Eventually I began to study Science for myself and a few years later joined The Mother Church and a branch church. I am most grateful I took these steps and also had the privilege of taking Christian Science class instruction.

Through prayer I have been able to recover lost articles, gain a wonderful sense of inward peace, and be healed of loneliness. But the healing I am most grateful for occurred eight years ago.

The morning we were to leave on a combined business and pleasure trip, in a matter of a very few minutes I became extremely weak and lost coordination in one side of my body. Also part of my face was affected. I asked my husband for help, and Christian Science treatment was immediately given. I repeatedly affirmed to myself "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (see p. 468). A beautiful sense of light came to me. The message was to spiritualize my thinking; to be at one with God. And I realized just for an instant the absolute nothingness of mortal personality and materiality.

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