Testimony of Healing November 23, 1998 Issue

Injured back healed

John Stuart Smith

In early spring last year, my son-in-law and I could not wait to get out to the golf course for the first game of the year. The winters are long in Rochester, and the first weekend of May was cool, with light rain. But it was not snowing, so we headed to the course.

While nobody was going to confuse either of us with Tiger Woods, we were having fun just being outside and active. With four holes to go, I bent over to tee up my drive when I felt something pop in my back. We had not let the cold or rain interfere with our round of golf, and I was not going to let my back stop us either, so I just ignored it and kept on playing.

Later, after we had finished playing, I realized that we should never ignore error, but should immediately correct it with prayer. Science and Health reminds us: "Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously. When the condition is present which you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise, heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office as porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears. Exclude from mortal mind the offending errors; then the body cannot suffer from them" (p. 392).

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