Testimony of Healing February 29, 1988 Issue

Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy states (p. 109): "Christian Science...

Margaret Binns

Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy states (p. 109): "Christian Science reveals incontrovertibly that Mind is All-in-all, that the only realities are the divine Mind and idea. This great fact is not, however, seen to be supported by sensible evidence, until its divine Principle is demonstrated by healing the sick and thus proved absolute and divine. This proof once seen, no other conclusion can be reached."

It is with deep gratitude that I can attest to the truth of these words on the basis of a healing I experienced in Christian Science of what was apparently appendicitis. The condition was never diagnosed by a medical doctor, but for some time I had been experiencing occasional attacks of this nature. Each time, through my own prayers, the condition would abate. I was visiting my parents one afternoon when the symptoms occurred again. My father is a Christian Scientist, and he supported me with his prayers; but as the condition became more severe, prayerful help was requested from a Christian Science practitioner, who lovingly agreed to pray for me.

I decided to remain at my parents' home that night, and the condition eased so that I drifted off to sleep. In the middle of the night, however, I was wakened with another acute attack. I asked my father to read the following passage to me from Science and Health (p. 308): "Jacob was alone, wrestling with error,—struggling with a mortal sense of life, substance, and intelligence as existent in matter with its false pleasures and pains,—when an angel, a message from Truth and Love, appeared to him and smote the sinew, or strength, of his error, till he saw its unreality; and Truth, being thereby understood, gave him spiritual strength in this Peniel of divine Science." I then asked him to read the description of man as given on pages 475–477 of Science and Health.

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