Testimony of Healing March 18, 1950 Issue

It was the more abundant life...

Alice M. Blake

It was the more abundant life which Christian Science offered that attracted me. I needed more than anything to be rid of the fear that I might be sick or incapacitated at any time, and also I needed a greater sense of freedom, mental freedom, wherein and wherewith I could do more and be something more. My outlook was very limited, my world very small. I was fearful of meeting people because of an inferiority complex. Christian Science has remedied this, for it has taught me that to live a life of Christliness is the greatest achievement to be attained in this world. It is this higher standard of life which I value.

Our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says on page 60 of Science and Health, "Science inevitably lifts one's being higher in the scale of harmony and happiness," and again (p. 264), "Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love." This peace has been experienced by me and, I might say, in a measure by my whole family. They have felt the harmony of a home under the calm influence of Christian Science, wherein fear has come to have less and less power and the Golden Rule is regarded as the basis of all human conduct.

My three boys suffered little from childhood ailments. Quick and often instantaneous healings were experienced, but one day it seemed that we had to encounter a belief in contagion. An epidemic of fever was claiming much attention in the district, and the youngest child appeared to be falling ill. During one day we denied the spurious power of a false mind to operate to simulate activity. Until midnight this condition persisted, and by two o'clock in the morning the child seemed very ill indeed; his breathing began to come in gasps, and fear suggested that a serious and dangerous thing was happening. I dealt with this suggestion, denying that God's child could be the victim of anything evil and knowing that Christ Jesus came to destroy the works of evil. Quietly and comfortingly the thought came to me, "Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind," from the sentence in Science and Health (p. 60) where Mrs. Eddy goes on to say, "and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul." With this thought came another wonderful message, that breath is not life. With or without breath Life is ever present, for Life is God, Love. Man is born of Spirit, not matter; he is, like christ Jesus, "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever" (Hebr. 13:8).

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