Testimony of Healing April 5, 1941 Issue

For the past twenty-six years the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Florence Veness Butler

For the past twenty-six years the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has been my constant guide. The daily study of the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly has taught me to recognize the belief in error and has shown me how to replace it, in great measure, by an awakened consciousness of the facts of being, namely, that man and the universe are created, maintained, and governed by God, and that man is, therefore, free from the effects produced by the opposite erroneous belief of life in matter.

During this period, children's diseases have been overcome: we have seen scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, bad throat conditions, and mastoiditis fade away, leaving behind no evidence of their supposed appearance.

Our family was hit by the so-called depression. I suddenly found myself almost penniless in a strange city, with two children to support. Employment agencies refused even to take my application for the type of work for which I was best prepared, claiming that one past thirty years of age could not possibly be placed in that line of work. I made no further effort to find employment, but for four days my daughter and I spent the greater part of our time singing Christian Science hymns and studying the textbook and the Church Manual by Mrs. Eddy. I declared constantly that man is God's child, and that our only responsibility is to obey the commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." On the fifth day my telephone rang, and I heard the voice of a young man who, some five or six years before, had been a visitor in my home in a distant city, and who appreciated the love that had been manifested towards him during that visit. He said that he was passing through the city and the day before had been introduced to a man having the same name as ours. He had asked the man if he knew us. That man was my husband's brother, who gave my young friend my telephone number. Since he was leaving the city immediately, he said, he would not have time to see me, but having been told of my difficulty had called on a friend of his who, he knew, needed some office assistance; an interview for the following day was arranged. Through this interview I received the appointment to a position which adequately met my needs, and I have been steadily employed since that day, some eight years ago.

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