Three and a half years ago I began to have frequent pain in my abdomen. I prayed about it for several weeks, but the discomfort persisted. Then, for several days the specific name of a disease kept coming to my thought, though I had no idea what the disease was. Then came the thought to look it up on the Internet, just to see if it had any relevance to what I was experiencing. However, I wasn’t convinced that this was really the best thing to do, so I carried on with my prayer for several more days.
Then, on a Monday morning, the temptation to research the disease was so strong that I determined I would do it as soon as I had read the Christian Science Bible Lesson for that week.
I sat down to read, and this sentence from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy jumped off the page: “The action of mortal mind on the body was not so injurious before inquisitive modern Eves took up the study of medical works and unmanly Adams attributed their own downfall and the fate of their offspring to the weakness of their wives” (p. 176). I thought, Wow! That’s exactly what I’m being tempted to be—an inquisitive modern Eve, taking up the study of medical works.
