How much inspiration and encouragement I have received over the years from testimonies given in branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, and from healings published in the Christian Science periodicals! I am glad to join in this song of praise to God.
After returning to Switzerland about twenty-five years ago, I was unexpectedly confronted with a decision in a personal matter. For months I prayed to see what was mere human desire and what was God's will and how I could best be of service in His vineyard. One day, while yearning desperately for an answer, it suddenly came very clearly in the following words from a poem by Mrs. Eddy (Poems, p. 13): "An offering pure of Love, whereto/God leadeth me." The burden lifted instantly, the decision was clear and, as it was later proved, right.
Then I needed employment and a place to live. So I prayed for divine direction. And it came! The firm I felt guided to offer my services to invited me promptly for an interview and engaged me the same day. And that afternoon I rented a very attractive room located in the same district. All during this time I knew that "whatever blesses one blesses all," when our foremost desire is to serve God. [The full sentence reads (Science and Health, 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."]
