Testimony of Healing September 28, 1987 ISSUE

It was the conversation with a friend concerning her struggle with...

Janey Alexander

It was the conversation with a friend concerning her struggle with alcoholism that alerted me to pray about man's true nature as the spiritual child of God. This prayerful metaphysical work led to the healing of a difficulty I had been having.

One idea that helped me a lot as I began this focused prayer was from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy The textbook states (p. 73): "God controls man, and God is the only Spirit. Any other control or attraction of so-called spirit is a mortal belief, which ought to be known by its fruit,—the repetition of evil." I looked up many helpful references to order and control in the writings of Mrs. Eddy

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