Testimony of Healing August 18, 2008 ISSUE

RECOVERY FROM PARALYSIS

EMMANUEL GONCALVES QUIST

When Science and Health came into my life, I was thrilled because the book spoke to me directly. At the time I picked it up, I was passing through a low point in my life, when the world could not offer me anything meaningful. But I said to myself, "Oh, this writer and this book know me vividly—that I am spiritual, immortal, and a thinker!" Learning about Christian Science removed the cobwebs and fear from my thought. I began to give up a lot of little habits that were selfish and self-centered. And I began to have healings.

One Sunday in May 2007, I was serving as First Reader of my local Christian Science branch church, when I felt numb on the right side of my body—from my head through my leg. This happened during the service, and I motioned for someone to come up and help me to a chair. The thought of my daughter and my wife, who had just started a course on Christian Science nursing in another country, occupied my attention. I wished my wife could have been there to comfort me, and I felt engrossed in a world of melancholy, despondency, and gloom.

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