Testimony of Healing July 17, 2006 Issue

GOD GOVERNS MY LIFE—100 PERCENT

CHARLES EDWARD LANGTON

Mary Baker Eddy wrote a powerful statement in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints." She went on to say, "If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well" (p. 14).

A while back I had an experience in which a "single moment" of purely spiritual consciousness brought about an instantaneous healing. At the time of this experience, my wife and I had just finished reading together the Weekly Bible Lesson-Sermon, from the Christian Science Quarterly. My wife had left the room. When I got up to follow her, I took one step and fell flat on the floor. The entire left side of my body was immobile, without any feeling whatsoever. I began to drag myself across the room to a telephone in order to call a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me. But as I did so, I thought to myself: "I don't have time to make a phone call. I have to call on God!"

In that moment of self-surrender, a statement we had just read in the Bible Lesson-Sermon answered my mental call. It was this: "The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and that there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins at once to destroy the errors of mortal sense and to supply the truth of immortal sense. This understanding makes the body harmonious; it makes the nerves, bones, brain, etc., servants, instead of masters" (Science and Health, p. 216).

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