One morning in July, 1962, I could not rise from my bed. Both the lower and upper portions of my legs were stiff, and the condition was painful to the point of preventing me from getting out of my bed. My wife and I called for the help of a practitioner, and we applied our best efforts in declaring the truths we knew of God and His likeness, man, which we had learned in our study of Christian Science. However, the difficulty did not yield, and for several weeks we continued our application of Christian Science to the problem.
Then one morning the practitioner asked me to read the chapter in our textbook by Mrs. Eddy entitled "Creation." I obediently applied myself and read the chapter very carefully but without any apparent result. So I returned to the textbook and retraced my study with more thorough application. Again I seemed to gain no uplift from my reading.
However, I knew that the practitioner must have known there was something in that chapter for my benefit, and I returned to a third reading. When I reached page 264, some words of our Leader hit me like a ton of brick. The sentence, "We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being," flooded my consciousness with an inspiration that is difficult to describe.
