In
the Bible, in both the Old and the New Testament, we discover instances when men and women, through an absolute faith in God, Spirit, overcame what appeared to be insurmountable difficulties and experienced health and well-being.
Many
years ago some children were making their way home through the gathering dusk after a happy day in the woods when the youngest began to lag behind.
"Delusion,
sin, disease, and death arise from the false testimony of material sense, which, from a supposed standpoint outside the focal distance of infinite Spirit, presents an inverted image of Mind and substance with everything turned upside down.
"Knowing
that Soul and its attributes were forever manifested through man, the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 210 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.