Testimony of Healing November 29, 1947 Issue

Words cannot tell the gratitude...

Rachel Bean Perkins

Words cannot tell the gratitude I feel for Christian Science. As a child and as an adolescent I suffered extreme unhappiness, although surrounded by all the comforts that fond parents provide for a beloved child. Even now it is difficult for me to explain how I felt at that time. A psychologist would have called me an introvert, and as I grew older I felt there was no place in the world for me. This continued through boarding school and up to my last year at college, when I became convinced there was no solution to my problem. At the university I had majored in French and then for two years in physical education, but had found that I did not desire to follow a profession in either of these subjects. In the meantime I had started the study of Christian Science, and in my last year at college I chose sociology as a major. I see now that my study of Christian Science had been preparing me for this. I became very much interested in the study of the social sciences and found myself looking forward to a position in social work, although even then I was afraid of people and of going out into the world to work.

My commencement year was one in which it seemed impossible for any college graduate to find work, or if work was found it was in a field far from the one in which the student had trained. I had found through my study of Christian Science that I really desired work where I could be of help to mankind, especially to unfortunate children, and this truth had taught me, too, that any right desire is blessed of God and must result in good. We read in our textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 454), "Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action." Therefore I realized that I could depend on God to lead me to my proper place and supply all I needed to fulfill my duties. It was as a flower unfolding to the sunlight. A position in social service work was found in May, before I was graduated in June, work in which I was employed happily for almost twelve years. I left it only for the greater joy of sharing a home with a husband whose greatest happiness, like mine, is in helping our two little ones to grow and blossom forth in the understanding of this glorious truth.

I am very grateful for the many physical healings I have had by the aid of Christian Science alone; and in the years when I was driving an average of twenty-five thousand miles annually I was conscious continually of the divine protection of our Father-Mother God. But most of all I am grateful for the peace of mind which this study brings. It is indeed the second coming of the Christ, Truth, which makes man free.—(Mrs.) Rachel Bean Perkins, Springvale, Maine.

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