Although I attended a Christian Science Sunday School as a young girl, I became a member of The Mother Church and a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, only a dozen or so years ago. During the intervening years after leaving Sunday School, I married a non-Scientist, whose father was a missionary. At the beginning of my married life I did not attend church services, but I regularly studied the Lesson-Sermon, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly. I was very grateful that my husband was never antagonistic towards my religion and allowed me to rear our son without doctors or medicine and eventually became a Christian Scientist himself.
On one occasion I became ill with pneumonia. (I had had similar attacks as a child and as a young woman.) I decided I was not going to telephone a practitioner for help but was going to overcome the condition for myself. I would hold my breath as the pain grew worse trying in this way to clear my thinking so that I could realize God's healing presence. I did not seem to make any progress, and to mortal sense I was suffering great pain; then the thought came to me, "God does not want you to hold your breath in order to be harmonious," and with that I let go of this false sense of freedom, and within a few minutes I was free of pain. This healing has been complete, and I have never had a return of the condition.
Since I have had the blessed privilege of class instruction, I have made it my practice to do faithful protective work each day for myself, for my family, and for mankind. Through this prayerful work, I have become surer of God's presence.
A few years ago when my husband, our son, and I were on a holiday tour we stopped at a waterfall. We were standing at the top a short distance from where the water flowed over the rocks, and our son was standing near the drop next to the water. Another young man who was walking on the slippery rock started sliding to the edge.
Our son put out his hand to help, only to be drawn along with him. As they neared the edge, great fear was expressed around us, and panic was evident. I felt quite calm and absolutely sure of God's protecting presence, and I assured the mother of the young man that they were safe. First her son disappeared from sight and then mine.
After a few minutes they both reappeared unharmed but wet, having fallen into a small, deep pool, halfway down the falls, without hurting each other or touching the jagged rocks which jutted out around it. Our son afterwards remarked that when he went over the edge he said aloud, "God is my Life."
I am sincerely grateful to God for His ever-present loving care, for Christ Jesus, our Exemplar, who taught and proved beyond doubt that Life is harmonious, indestructible, deathless, and eternal, for our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and for her consecrated life and receptivity to the truth, which enabled her to be the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for class instruction and for the many, many blessings my family and I have experienced during the years through the study of Christian Science. I am grateful that my husband has been a member of The Mother Church and a branch church for some years, that our son, who is also a member of The Mother Church and a branch church, is married to a Christian Scientist and that they are rearing their first child in this wonderful religion.— Johannesburg, Transvaal, Republic of South Africa.
I wish to verify the above testimony by my wife. I am deeply grateful for the many blessings and healings and the wonderful protection my family and I have experienced over many years.
On a recent visit to Europe we were blessed by a remarkable protection from loss. When arriving at the air terminal of a large city for our departure to the airport, I discovered that my camera was missing. I immediately took a taxi back to the hotel where we had stayed. My wife remained with our luggage at the terminal, and we both did prayerful work, knowing that in reality there was no loss and that nothing can deprive man of his completeness.
The camera was not at the hotel, and nobody there knew what taxi had taken us to the air terminal. Still convinced of God's protection at all times and in all circumstances, I returned in the taxi. We followed a different route from that taken by the previous taxi and were caught in a traffic jam. At that moment I noticed the driver of the first taxi, which had taken us to the air terminal, waving to me from the sidewalk where his car was parked. He had found the camera in his car and had recognized me. I reached the air terminal just in time for our departure to the airport.
This is but one of many such proofs of the allness of Mind which I have experienced since I became a student of Christian Science.—
