Testimony of Healing April 10, 1989 Issue

My brother and I were enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School...

Muriel Purse with contributions from Brian Leslie Purse, Julian Mark Purse

My brother and I were enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School after my brother's healing, which took place when he was five and I was seven. My mother had sought many ways and medical means to free him of a recurring and stubborn cough that had troubled him and concerned the whole family since his babyhood. A relative suggested she try Christian Science. A Christian Science practitioner was called to pray for my brother, and he was healed.

Christian Science is a very precious gift. I recall in my teen-age years the joy of proving the statements of spiritual truth discussed in my Sunday School classes. While I had loved this teaching, it was not until I was having difficulty meeting academic standards at school that I realized Christian Science was directly relevant to my immediate needs.

In Sunday School I learned that man is the perfect, spiritual image of God and that he has no separate mind from God. I accepted Mrs. Eddy's answer to the question "What is man?" given on pages 475–477 of Science and Health as referring to man's real and only identity. The freedom of identifying myself correctly and claiming divine Mind as the only Mind released me from a false sense of inferiority and fear. Achievement then became joyous and rewarding.

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