Our Leader tells us in Science and Health (p. 57): "Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it." Christian Science is my joy and happiness, and I want to share some of the experiences I have had in the demonstration of its teachings.
About five years ago, I was suffering from a severe pain in my left hip and leg. I was studying Christian Science, although not a member of the church, and was applying my understanding to solving the problem as best I knew how. But it would not yield. My husband became fearful and insisted that I see a doctor. X-ray pictures were taken which showed a congenital weak back which had resulted in the dislocation of an intervertebral disk. I was urged to go into the hospital for a few days for treatment to relieve the condition, not cure it, and I was told that I would have to return from time to time for the same treatment. I remained in the hospital for sixteen days. As I was then no better, we decided that I should return home for a few days to be with the family before surgery by a specialist in another city was decided upon.
At this point, however, I took my stand for Christian Science and determined to rely on God alone for healing. Although the pain was still severe, I obeyed our Leader's injunction, "Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit" (ibid., pp. 390, 391). Also this verse from the Bible was of great help: "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit" (Gal. 5:25).
