Testimony of Healing July 11, 1942 Issue

For the innumerable blessings...

Marshall Lantson Higley

For the innumerable blessings which Christian Science has afforded me for many years, I am deeply grateful. My first healing took place when I was a child, when I was suffering from severe biliousness. I shall never forget the impression that this instantaneous healing made upon me, as my mother sat beside my bed reading from the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

Christian Science has given me much for which to be grateful. It has inspired me with a constant sense of divine protection and guidance. Once, while working for an employer who had the reputation of holding back part of the employee's wages, I was confronted with this situation. I knew that my labor had been honestly done and was well worthy of the wage agreed upon. Immediately, my thought turned to the first line of the Lord's Prayer, "Our Father which art in heaven." At once, I clearly realized that if God was "our" Father, evil could not be personalized and given power, for Truth could never be less than infinite; that my true supply was not material and dependent upon persons, but the realization and expression of ever-present spiritual ideas. When I was handed my pay check I noticed the deduction, and my questioning look seemed to bring an air of embarrassment to my employer. I persisted in my effort to know only perfect God and perfect man, and in about fifteen minutes my employer returned, quite obviously ashamed, admitted the error, and paid the remainder of the wages.

At another time, when a business establishment in which I was employed closed down, leaving me unemployed and fearful of the consequences, I recalled Mrs. Eddy's statement on page 15 of the textbook, in the chapter entitled "Prayer," "The Father in secret is unseen to the physical senses, but He knows all things and rewards according to motives, not according to speech." My motive then became to reach the heart of true prayer, and I prayed for guidance. I was soon led to take a trip up into the mountains, eighty-five miles distant, to a resort, with the sole purpose of spending a short time there in prayer and meditation. Upon reaching this remote mountain resort, I at once found I was able to help in supplying the manager's urgent need for an employee; later on, I was told that my arrival and service there were "a godsend," for which I felt deeply grateful.

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