Christian Science has brought such a multitude of blessings into my experience that I cannot begin to number them. Very early in my study of Science I was freed from the cigarette habit. Desiring branch church membership, I endeavored to resist the habit humanly. This proved unsuccessful, and I can recall saying to God one day: "I can't, Father. You will just have to help me." This occurred about noon, and the next morning I automatically reached for a cigarette. All sense of enjoyment I had believed I derived from smoking had vanished. I have never since had the slightest desire to smoke.
Some years ago my husband's occupation took us to a midwestern city. This was quite a challenging move in many ways. It seemed necessary for us to give up a wide circle of cherished friends and interests, activity in a loved branch church, and a beautiful home. The temptation to believe that church, home, friends, or right activity had their origin in matter was refuted. The truth that man is God's expressed image, complete, perfect, harmonious, and therefore incapable of losing aught that is real, was claimed.
Soon God's precious promise found in Exodus came to us (23:20), "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared," and became a staff upon which to lean as each facet of the new experience was exposed. It proved a very rich and rewarding one. Warm and true friendships, the privilege of branch church activity, and the joy of restoring a lovely old house to a state of beauty and hospitality were ours. A later move has but continued to prove that completeness is a state of spiritual being and subject only to the law of harmony.
I should like to express my gratitude for a healing of a condition that bent my body double. I have no idea what it was, but an honest searching of my thought revealed that I had been sitting in judgment on loved ones. The help of a practitioner was sought, and later my teacher in Christian Science was asked to take over the case. As I realized that God has made each and every one of His ideas in His image and likeness and maintains them so, my thought was lifted up, and the body responded and was healed.
More recently I fell with great force to a concrete floor. I immediately heard myself saying: "It never happened. Thank You, Father." My speech was not clear; but I continued to reiterate that since an accident had never happened in Mind, it could not have happened to Mind's idea.
A practitioner was called, and I should like to say here that I cannot be grateful enough for those whose thought is so clear that it makes the truth brilliantly present. This dear one directed my thought to a passage in "Miscellaneous Writings," where Mrs. Eddy, referring to Jesus, says (p. 104): "His unseen individuality, so superior to that which was seen, was not subject to the temptations of the flesh, to laws material, to death, or the grave. Formed and governed by God, this individuality was safe in the substance of Soul, the substance of Spirit,—yea, the substance of God, the one inclusive good."
The potency of this statement of our Leader's, together with the practitioner's steadfast witnessing to the truth, was so effective that in a short time I was able to go to bed and rest comfortably for most of the night. In a few days all the effects of the fall had disappeared, and I was working in my garden, moving box plants.
I am deeply grateful for all the healings mentioned, but my gratitude exceeds words for the resultant spiritual growth. I am grateful for the companionship of a loyal student of Science and for the joy of sharing Mind's unfolding with him. I can think of no greater proof of God's infinite love for His children than the sending of the healing truth through Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, and Mrs. Eddy.— Radnor, Pennsylvania.
It gives me great joy and satisfaction to confirm the blessings which Science has brought to our home as recorded in my wife's testimony. The many demonstrations made in accomplishing the relocation to a midwestern city to which she refers made it a wonderful experience for us both. After sixteen years in one section of the country, that area seemed identified as home and very difficult to leave.
We were able to turn from this human sense of place and to acknowledge the true nature of man as idea, of employment as right activity, and of home as the manifestation of the many spiritual qualities which that word connotes. The adjustment was so completely satisfactory that though we were not youngsters when this move was made, we both felt that we grew up in the new area and certainly we did grow spiritually as well as "enlarge the place of [our] tent" (Isa. 54:2).—
