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I want to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude for a healing I had some time ago when we were living in Boston. One evening I became so weak I was unable to go to work the next day. Then I suddenly lost consciousness, and arrangements were made to have me taken to the Sanatorium of the Christian Science Benevolent Association, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

When I regained consciousness a Christian Science practitioner, whom my wife had asked to take the case, was at my bedside. He started talking to me of God and my relationship to Him as His reflection. In a few moments I could feel that I was getting better.

Among several passages which he read to me from the Bible were these words of Jesus (John 6: 63): "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." He also read the following statement from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 14): "Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man's dominion over the whole earth. This understanding casts out error and heals the sick, and with it you can speak 'as one having authority.'"

There were other selections from the Bible and Science and Health which he gave me to study. After about a week's time I told the practitioner that I also had a hemorrhoid. He assured me that God neither had nor knew of any such condition, and he asked me how I, as actually the image and likeness of God, could have it or know it?

The practitioner continued talking along this line, and I became so absorbed in what he was saying that I forgot all about myself until suddenly it dawned on me that my difficulties were caused by my wrong thinking.

My thought was filled with love for all, and sometime during the night I was healed of the hemorrhoid. I realized I had not had enough love for my fellow men; also I had shown much resentment. And in about four days the sense of weakness left me.

My testimony would be incomplete if I did not express my sincere gratitude for the Christian Science Benevolent Association and for the nurses who gave me such considerate care. I should also like to express my deep gratitude to the practitioner for the work he did and for the interest he showed in my well-being. I am filled with joy and gratitude. —Ira D. Ivy, Bradenton, Florida.

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