With a heart filled with gratitude and a sincere desire to help others I wish to give the testimony of my first healing through Christian Science. I had never known what it was to be free from sickness. After years of medical treatment I was told that I should never be well. I had become very much discouraged, and had almost given up in despair, when Christian Science was brought to my attention; but I was not sure that it was the truth and did not take it up readily. My friends told me it was not of God, and nearly a year passed before I began to study and apply it as I had been told to do. Through constant prayer and with the help of a loving Christian Science practitioner I was healed, although the healing did not take place at once. Finally I realized my freedom from leakage of the heart and asthma, which had troubled me from childhood, as well as from many minor ailments.
After my release from physical bondage I began to apply this truth to eradicate the false belief of lack. When I realized that this condition could also be corrected through Christian Science, I began earnestly and continually to declare that God is All; that therefore He is the source of all supply. I tried daily to get closer to my Father-Mother God; I realized that the kingdom of God is the kingdom of good, and that as a child of God this was mine now, eternally mine, and good was for all God's children. I worked for light to realize what true substance is. I constantly corrected the suggestions of limitation and lack by affirming God's allness and ever-presence, and this right thinking gradually became manifested in a sense of plenty.
Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has said in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 206), "In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,—Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply." As I became conscious of this spiritual fact and claimed the abundance which is already here, the demonstration was made. Words are inadequate to express the gratitude I felt when the realization of God's allness dawned on my consciousness. The false sense of limitation was entirely destroyed through the unfolding recognition of Love's allness. There seemed such an abundance expressed everywhere. All that I had multiplied itself and seemed to go twice as far as similar things had done before. Truly we shall have all we need if we seek "first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;" for God is unbounded good, "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
