Testimony of Healing September 29, 2014 Issue

Stomach pain gone

Mary Ellen Blanton

Several weeks ago I wakened with an excruciating pain in my stomach. I lay in bed repeating every statement from Christian Science teachings I could remember.

I could not read. I could not eat. I knew it could not be food poisoning. My husband had eaten the same thing I had eaten the day before, and he was fine.

I repeated these two statements from Mary Baker Eddy’s book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive” (p. 463). And, “The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness” (p. 151). Both of these statements bring out the thought that man—our true being—is a spiritual idea of God. That is the basis on which we pray for healing in Christian Science. I, however, was trying to use spiritual words to heal a material body, a mental standpoint that wasn’t going to work.