There was a time when I woke up each morning with a lingering back ache that sometimes lasted for hours. This condition did not yield in spite of my best efforts working Christian Science, until one day.... It happened during an Annual Meeting of the members of the Mother Church in Boston, Mass., when a speaker flatly stated that Christian Science has never failed. Well, I almost laughed. After all, I was a living example to the contrary as I sat there with my back still aching late in the morning, while this radical statement was being made. However, I also realized at this moment that in a technical sense the speaker was correct; the Christian Science itself has never failed. I reasoned that principles it represents and the truth behind them reflect divine Principle and divine Truth. I realized that these were the same at this moment as they had been during the days when Christ Jesus had demonstrated them in healing works, or Mary Baker Eddy in her time. I realized that time is not a factor. I reasoned these principles and truth were just as effective at the present moment than they had always been, and just as valid to my experience right there and then. As I reasoned along this line the back pain simply vanished. It flowed away. I was free. This happened many years ago. The nagging pain that had persisted for a long period prior to this moment, never returned. The healing was completed in literally an instant. |