A healing which I experienced not long ago brought out so definitely the efficacy of the healing power of Christian Science that my first thought, when the healing was complete, was to express gratitude in a written testimony.
My present position of flight engineer with Philippine Air Lines entails considerable flying. At one time the Manila-based flight engineers were called upon to do an excessive amount of flying—sometimes even with less than twenty-four hours between flights.
During one night, following my return to Manila on a flight, I was awakened with a sense of chill and began shivering. The shivering became so intense and uncontrollable that it soon awakened my wife. The following words from the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, came to me immediately (p. 393): "Mind is the master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority, Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action." Along the same line were two of the citations from Science and Health in that week's Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, the subject of which was "Matter." The statements were: "Resist the temptation to believe in matter as intelligent, as having sensation or power" (p. 218), and, "If man is governed by the law of divine Mind, his body is in submission to everlasting Life and Truth and Love" (p. 216). In addition to these statements my wife made several helpful remarks to me and then continued silently with her own mental work.
