Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
Healed of dysentery
A number of years ago, I worked in the American Consulate in Alexandria, Egypt. At that time there was a Christian Science Society there comprised of a number of dedicated Christian Scientists of various nationalities. I was a member, and also served as the Second Reader and pianist.
Occasionally, I would go up to Cairo for a weekend. When a British member of the society learned I was planning such a trip, he said he would be in Cairo that weekend on business and asked if I would like to ride with him to what was then the British Canal Zone to see the Suez Canal. I thanked him and said that would be great.
The week before I was to go to Cairo, I came down with symptoms of amoebic dysentery, which was considered an “occupational hazard” of the country. I began praying along the lines of this statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive” (p. 463). I also really dug into that week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson, which was on the subject “Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced.” I was so inspired that the thought never occurred to me that a three-hour drive across the desert with few or no restrooms could be a challenge.
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
April 8, 2013 issue
View Issue-
Letters
Margaret Penfield, Susan J. Pocklington, Phyllis Feldman, JSH-Online comments
-
The moral courage that grows from Love
Bradley C. Bush
-
A change of perspective
Lynne Cook
-
When listening replaced lists
Pauline Hutchinson
-
Fit the puzzle
Nancy Robison
-
Love saved us on a summer's day
Pamela Brittenham
-
Natural concord
Text and photograph by Merelice
-
Spiritual reasoning
Michael Hamilton
-
Digging deeper
Gordon Myers
-
Crashing stereotypes
Jenny Sawyer
-
Headaches gone
Kim Kilduff
-
Healed of dysentery
Barbara Chapline Waldner
-
Damaged foot mended
Cindy Vail
-
No more crippling pain
Phyllis Perron West
-
Near-heaven experiences
The Editors