Testimony of Healing January 1, 2001 Issue

Purity brings physical healing

Ann Brown

Six years ago, I found that a number of lumps had appeared under my arms. Although they were not painful, I knew it was not right for me to have them. I asked a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me.

I studied references in the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. One passage spoke to me very clearly about how I was to keep my thought pure moment by moment, regardless of what was going on: "It is the spiritualization of thought and Christianization of daily life, in contrast with the results of the ghastly farce of material existence; it is chastity and purity, in contrast with the downward tendencies and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity, which really attest the divine origin and operation of Christian Science" (Science and Health, p. 272).