Testimony of Healing June 10, 1905 Issue

For the great help, satisfaction, and peace which I have...

Minnie Symonds

For the great help, satisfaction, and peace which I have gained through Christian Science, I am very thankful to her whose clear insight of truth has opened the way to the real understanding of God and man. Before studying Christian Science I never realized the utter impossibility of the existence of two power,—good and evil,—nor had it ever occurred to me that man, as we see him, sinful, sick, poor, and with sorrow and death ever around him, could not be the man created by God. As I look back over the four years since Christian Science was first brought to my notice. I can but wonder how I could ever have been satisfied with beliefs so illogical and contradictory. Now I find an answer to all difficulties, and a remedy for error of every kind, because Christian Science goes to the root of all evil and thus destroys it. The Bible is a new book to me, the passages which have been known since childhood have a new meaning, and the life of Jesus, our great Wayshower, is connected with our own in a way I never understood before. In my own experience I have found latent errors unmasked, but at the same time the way to conquer them is made plain. Fear has seemed a strong enemy to overcome; I find it a foe which meets me at every turn. Criticism is also another enemy, which, through Christian Science. I am learning to face with a better understanding than I ever had before, for I now see that humility is the gateway to harmony, and self-love is the root of condemnation of others. Through the purifying influence of Truth the mental atmosphere has been cleared and the physical troubles have dropped off. Christian Science has enabled me to face troubles which otherwise would have been unbearable; it has kept me in perfect health and strength, because through all the time of strain, I have learned, though only partially as yet, to know that there is no other power but God. The necessity of watching my thoughts is becoming more clear to my consciousness. The seeming attraction of certain phases of thought, and the great care and watchfulness needed to overcome this attraction, is one of the most important lessons to me, for thus I am finding path. Through this higher understanding of Truth, a clearer light has also come respecting the Love which is God and which our Master revealed to the world. Through the teachings of Science and Health, I am beginning to see that Jesus loved because he distinguished between mortal man and the spiritual man, and with this fresh light we, as his followers, may thus reflect Love. For the removal of all these clouds and for the brightness of a religion of all these clouds and for the brightness of a religion can thus be demonstrated, I am very grateful to God, and to our Leader.

Minnie Symonds, Sydney, New South Wales.

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