Stopping contagion

Salonee Vencatasamy

Originally written in French, this testimony appeared in the June 2013 French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German editions of The Herald of Christian Science.

In April 2011, my husband and his brother went to Greece for an eight-day vacation. The first day of his journey, my husband called me to tell me that he wasn’t feeling well at all, and was suffering from stomach flu. Many other people at the hotel were manifesting the same symptoms. His brother was starting to get ill as well. Since my husband and his brother do not practice Christian Science, they took some medicine, and after five days they felt more or less well.

When he came back home, my husband told me briefly about that experience. That very day, I started experiencing the same symptoms of the illness he had described. I was surprised by the speed at which contagion seemed to spread, first in Greece and then in France. I immediately thought of what Mary Baker Eddy writes in her book Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896: “Floating with the popular current of mortal thought ... we do what others do, believe what others believe, and say what others say. Common consent is contagious, and it makes disease catching” (p. 228).

For more than 13 years, Christian Science has been my only remedy whenever I have had a health challenge. I knew therefore what to do in this situation.

I started giving myself, with great conviction, a metaphysical treatment in Christian Science. I went to a quiet corner of the house, without anyone realizing that anything was amiss. I immediately affirmed my perfection as a spiritual child of God.

The symptoms were aggressive, and I felt quite ill. A belief associated with that sickness is that one has to use the restroom about every 15 minutes. But I understood that that physical action was erroneous, and that I did not have to obey its urging. We are not slaves, but masters, of the body. So, when the sickness wanted to make itself known, suggesting that I do this or feel that, I resisted, and refused to obey. Little by little, I started gaining ground, felt more at peace, and was finally victorious over the symptoms.

By evening, I was back to normal—I was completely healed! I really saw that immortal Spirit, God, had silenced erroneous mortal sense. Here are some ideas that helped me obtain this healing: “... evil is neither communicable nor scientific” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 72); “At a time of contagious disease, Christian Scientists endeavor to rise in consciousness to the true sense of the omnipotence of Life, Truth, and Love, and this great fact in Christian Science realized will stop a contagion” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 116). I have proved and lived these truths many times in my experience as a Christian Scientist.

I am grateful to God for this healing, and I thank Mary Baker Eddy with all my heart for having showed us the way in Christian Science.

Salonee Vencatasamy
Yerres, France

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