Testimony of Healing March 26, 1979 Issue

One afternoon, while trimming branches from a high tree, I...

G. Stanley Hammond

One afternoon, while trimming branches from a high tree, I fell. The impact was so loud that a neighbor shouted, "What happened?" I replied, "Nothing!" This declaration was the beginning of my spiritualized approach. I wasn't just denying the suggestion of accident. I was acknowledging, through prayer, my true oneness with God, good—my spiritual perfection, which had always existed. I knew Mind, God, had never lost sight of me, nor could I be separated from His care.

My neighbor called, "Are you OK?" My reply, "Yes," had more conviction to it, as my consciousness was becoming less concerned with the material evidence and more God-centered. I thought of Mrs. Eddy's statement (Science and Health, p. 397): "When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, 'I am hurt!' Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real."

I asked my wife for my Bible and Science and Health. Some of the truths I read helped fortify my prayer, purifying and releasing me from the suggestion of severe injury. I realized that as man is the reflection of the one perfect God, nothing discordant can touch him. With this spiritualization of thought, I knew healing was at hand. The lies about man had been rejected, and replaced by the truth of being. A total adjustment of my body followed, and within a few hours I was free. The following day I was at my post as Sunday School teacher.

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