Testimony of Healing March 30, 1998 Issue

Effects of poisonous spider bite healed

Mary Allyene McKinley

A little over a year ago I woke experiencing flulike symptoms and extreme fatigue, but not actually feeling ill. An excessive desire to sleep, however, alerted me to call a Christian Science practitioner for treatment. I felt it was imperative that I stay awake and pray. I then turned wholeheartedly to God, trusting in Jesus' promise "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).

The struggle to stay awake made it difficult for me to pray. But as I held steadfastly to the truth that sleep had no power to heal, restore strength, or exert a hypnotic influence because God is All-in-all, the struggle decreased somewhat. I was able to read the Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly.

The condition progressively affected my ability to smell and taste, as well as my speech and hearing. But as I considered prayerfully a statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, "Spirit's senses are without pain, and they are forever at peace," it became clear to me that in reality there are no material senses to become affected or lost, that the spiritual senses are the only senses, and so, as the passage continues, "Nothing can hide from them the harmony of all things and the might and permanence of Truth" (pp. 214–215). Peace soon flooded my consciousness, and the symptoms began to abate.

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