Testimony of Healing October 31, 1903 Issue

I wish to testify of the value Christian Science has been...

I wish to testify of the value Christian Science has been to me in my work as an editorial writer on a daily newspaper. Before I was called to the position I now occupy, my experience had been largely as a special writer. While that work was satisfactory enough, I was not getting the recompense for it I thought was due me. After coming into Science, I worked over the question of supply in what I honestly thought was the right way, but I did not get the results. Nor did I even begin to solve the problem until the exigencies of the case finally forced me to give up my own will in the matter and place myself unreservedly in God's hands. From that time until now the demonstration has been quite a remarkable one.

The first step was a complete change in the management of the paper by which I was employed. On account of this many of the old force lost their positions. I learned some time afterward that I was slated to go with the rest. But my work proved satisfactory to the new management, and I was given a small raise in salary instead. Next there occurred a vacancy in the staff of editorial writers. Writing leaders and paragraphing, as it is called, was something I had never thought of doing, had never trained myself to do, nor was it work for which I had ever regarded myself as especially adapted. Consequently, the offer of the place came to me entirely as a surprise. Knowing that if it was really my place I should be able to fill it, I accepted it. This meant a substantial increase of salary.

I began my editorial work by realizing that divine Mind was the source of my supply and that this supply was infinite, that it was my business as God's perfect child to express Divine intelligence, to express it all the time, and that nothing could keep me from expressing it. Then I quit realizing, took up a pen, and went to work. I did not have to wait for something to write. On the contrary, the something to write was always waiting for me. In a few months conditions again changed, and a new paper was started on which I was given entire charge of the editorial page. This paper made an unexpected success, and a short time ago I had the satisfaction of being told by the management that this success was largely due to my work.

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