Testimony of Healing August 14, 1995 Issue

Several years ago I was distressed by a constant, detailed discussion...

Alva Warland

Several years ago I was distressed by a constant, detailed discussion in the media about cancer. I was reminded of Mary Baker Eddy's words "The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and diseases among the human family" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 196). A study of the whole paragraph containing this sentence was most enlightening.

At that time I was busy with a full-time career, my husband and family, and much involvement with church activities. My daily study of the Bible Lesson would sometimes become no more than a quick read—a scenario for spiritual malnutrition, you might agree.

A day came when I discovered a large lump in one breast and became extremely fearful. Immediately I visited a Christian Science practitioner. Her calm and loving words helped me to see that the reality of being was God and His perfect, spiritual creation. In other words: "There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause" (ibid., p. 207). Of course! I had been tricked into seeing as illusion as if it were a reality.

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