Testimony of Healing May 4, 2026 Issue

Malaria healed

Kirk Lindsay

While at university decades ago, I enrolled in an international study program based on ocean travel.

At one point, the entire student body was warned that we would be traveling in an area where malaria was prevalent. The symptoms of the disease were described to us in great detail. Also, we were told that there was only enough preventative medicine on the ship for half the students. So the staff had a raffle to see who would be prescribed the medication. My name was not drawn. Fear amongst the students was extreme.

As a lifelong Christian Scientist, I prayed, affirming that my God-given identity was spiritual and could not be invaded, poisoned, or harmed. I also could see that the fear and speculation on board wasn’t helping anyone. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “A new name for an ailment affects people like a Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one hastens to get it. A minutely described disease costs many a man his earthly days of comfort” (p. 197).

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