Testimony of Healing November 16, 1987 Issue

One Sunday morning I heard the soloist at my branch church...

Lois L. Hilton

One Sunday morning I heard the soloist at my branch church singing, "Lift up the latchkey, open the door. Come home to the Father and wander no more." Christ Jesus' parable of the prodigal son (see Luke 15:11–24) was in that week's Bible Lesson, and this passage from the solo was the message to the son. It is the message for all of us who are having "prodigal" experiences.

I had been having the challenge of a growth on my back. It had been there for a long time. Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy states (p. 261): "Look away from the body into Truth and Love, the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality." I had been obedient to this idea as I had continued praying about this difficulty. When I toweled off after baths, however, I could tell the growth was getting larger and more painful.

Nevertheless I had some mighty powerful aids! As I prayed, I found great help in passages from the textbook, Science and Health, including this sentence (p. 68): "Christian Science presents unfoldment, not accretion; it manifests no material growth from molecule to mind, but an impartation of the divine Mind to man and the universe." I reasoned that Christian Science presents an unfoldment of good, of perfection, patience, love, inspiration, and understanding. It does not present an accumulation or accretion of a false substance. As Science and Health states (p. 468), "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay."

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