Testimony of Healing November 25, 1991 Issue

For as far back in my childhood as I can remember,...

Daniel W. Winter

For as far back in my childhood as I can remember, about six weeks of every summer were a nightmare for me; I suffered from a severe allergy and this included asthmatic attacks. Physicians prescribed year-round inoculations and a great many prescription medicines, some of which gave temporary relief; but the condition only grew worse as I reached adulthood. By the time I was in my early twenties, I was always scheming to escape to a pollen-free location during at least part of this period; and, even though by this time I had become a serious student of Christian Science, fear kept me from abandoning the inoculations. I was afraid that I did not understand Christian Science well enough to heal this condition through prayer.

One day while I was studying the weekly Bible Lesson, the following sentences from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, caught my attention: "The scientific government of the body must be attained through the divine Mind. It is impossible to gain control over the body in any other way. On this fundamental point, timid conservatism is absolutely inadmissible. Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized."

It became very clear to me that, in spite of many healings I had already had solely through the application of Christian Science, in the present case I was being governed by fear and dominated by the human mind and not the divine Mind. There was not only no "radical reliance on Truth," there was no reliance at all. I realized that I was like the woman in the Bible who had spent all her living on physicians but grew no better but rather worse before she was healed by Christ Jesus. Then and there I decided to drop the inoculations, and I turned completely to God to heal this long-standing difficulty. The healing came very quickly and has been complete now for about twenty years.

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