Testimony of Healing October 13, 1997 Issue

This sentence in Science and Health has often been my guide...

Jim Fabian

This sentence in Science and Health has often been my guide when I am planning trips: "To begin rightly is to end rightly" (p. 262). My concept of beginning rightly is to acknowledge the ever-presence and omnipotence of God, divine Mind, as being in control at all times.

Before leaving for an African safari, my wife and I needed to have yellow fever shots to ensure readmittance to the United States should an epidemic break out in any of the countries we would visit. I recalled the only experience I'd had with shots: when I was in the military, after shots were administered I experienced a sore arm and several of the recruits in my group fainted. At the time, I thought of this verse in Psalms: "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee" (91:7). I was completely protected from ill effects, and the soreness was healed, too. All the men recovered.

When praying about the shot for the trip, we acknowledged that matter has no reality or sensation and that mortal mind's erroneous suggestions are silenced by the truth that man is God's spiritual idea, not subject to discord. When the shot was administered, there was no sensation nor did soreness develop.

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