Testimony of Healing January 2, 1909 Issue

Several years ago, while hungering and thirsting for...

Cora B. Heck

Several years ago, while hungering and thirsting for righteousness,—spiritually starving, physically sick, mentally fatigued,—weary from trying to find God, good, in matter, crying for peace when there was no peace, I was asked by a dear friend who is a Christian Scientist to try Christian Science. Recognizing that I had reached man's extremity, I gladly accepted God's opportunity, and called upon a Christian Science practitioner that very day. I shall never forget the sense of love, rest, and peace that came to me as she talked to me. Self-righteousness had been saying to me that I could hate because I thought I was hated. The practitioner quoted the last five verses of the fifth chapter of Matthew, and while I was familiar with these verses, they had been to me but mere words; I had never before realized their true meaning. The revelation of Truth was glorious! I found myself physically healed, and mentally I was given peace and rest in God, good.

But while beholding the glories of God from this mount of revelation, I found that I must go down into the valley and there begin the ascent by earnestly striving to eradicate every wrong thought about God and man. It is indeed "a warfare with the flesh" (Science and Health, p. 324), but who can express the joy as we, through honest effort, see each belief in a power apart from God vanish into its native nothingness. I am daily being fed spiritually from the feast of divine Love, prepared for us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and from the Bible. I desire to be not only a hearer, but a doer of the truth, because I realize that it is only by knowing and doing the will of God that I can express my gratitude to God, and to our beloved Leader, who has so patiently labored to show us the way of Truth.

Cora B. Heck, Toledo, O.

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