This testimony is to express gratitude for the oneness of Mind taught in Christian Science. Several years ago, while studying for a graduate degree, I faced at the end of months of work a comprehensive oral examination that was to be conducted by a committee including my university adviser, the department chairman, and three other professors. As the time for the oral examination approached, I found myself becoming extremely nervous and unable to study efficiently. I tried to overcome my fears as I had been taught to do in Christian Science, but my efforts were unavailing.
The thought occurred to me that I should ask for help from a Christian Science practitioner, but I was loath to do this. I had always done well on examinations before, and I did not want to admit that I was not humanly smart enough to come through on my own power in this instance. Then I saw very clearly that I was allowing intellectual arrogance to blind and bind me; so I let go of human will, sought to walk in God's way, and asked a practitioner to help me. The help was immediately and lovingly given.
Over the telephone I explained to the practitioner that, though I had been studying for months, I did not see how I could adequately prepare myself in time. It was well known that I was a Christian Scientist, since I had been active in helping to start a Christian Science Organization at the university. Two of the members of the examining committee were adherents of other denominations, and two were non-Christians. I feared that they might make things especially difficult for me because of my religious convictions. The practitioner explained that as a representative of Truth, I had God's invariable law of good to support me and that I need have no fear. This was a week before the examination.
