Testimony of Healing November 19, 1904 Issue

My cause of gratitude for all that Truth has done and is...

Eva S. W. Williams

My cause of gratitude for all that Truth has done and is doing for me increases so rapidly, that every week I wait before giving my testimony, will make it more difficult to compress the testimony into reasonable limits; whereas, rather more than two years ago, the outlook upon life was one that often brought me into a state of mental depression which sometimes involved an actual physical sense of pain and heart-heaviness. Since the light began to break for me I have not once felt this, nor the attendant result of looking to self-destruction as the only possible way of escape. During the two years and four months since divine Love led me to open Science and Health for the second time (after an interval of some years from reading it through prayerfully, but as it then seemed in vain), I have drunk deeply of the hemlock-cup that means warfare with the false self within; but this has never caused me to swerve from the certainty that "God's in His heaven: all's right with the world," whatever the seeming may be, and this assurance does help one through everything. The way grows brighter, one's sense of the encompassing arms of Love grows in spite of outward manifestations that are slow in being made.

Since accepting the Christ-truth as Mrs. Eddy has revealed it to us, I have never touched medicine, and the result has been two years of almost unbroken good health, a capacity for hard work, and an endurance previously unknown. Clear proof has come to me that the harder the mental work, the greater the capacity to fulfil the day's duties aright, however arduous they may be, the "consciousness of truth" (Science and Health, p. 278) being our best rest. In June of last year I became a member of The Mother Church, a cause for much joy and humility. No words can say what I owe to the periodicals for the help they give. Gratitude for all this must henceforth be the motive-power of my life, and I know that gratitude expressed in selfless, impersonal love will lead to the outward manifestation which seems to be hard to attain; that sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man are eternal and are therefore mine now, since the Comforter, Divine Science, has been sent to show us the way of healing.

Great blessings make great demands upon us, and second only to the debt that must ever be owed, that must be daily and hourly repaid to our Leader, my chief cause for gratitude and the most potent incentive to work is found in the example of those whom God has selected for His service here in this English university town, those who conduct the Sunday and Wednesday meetings, under, perhaps, very exceptional difficulties, and who have been enabled to "strengthen, sustain, and cheer" all who have come under the influence of their pure and selfless ministrations. I have also other Scientists to thank for healing work done for me. Words alone, expressing thanksgiving to God, would be idle, but "prayer is the heart's sincere desire," and I know that I have the sincere desire so to live that others may through me be led to Christ.

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