Testimony of Healing October 1, 1910 Issue

I feel that I cannot even begin to be grateful enough for...

Violette Kimball Dunn with contributions from Sarah Warren

I feel that I cannot even begin to be grateful enough for Christian Science, for all that it has done and is doing daily for me and mine; but I should like to give expression to a little of my gratitude by telling of the recent overcoming of a sense of separation, hoping that the experience may perhaps prove helpful to some one else who is facing the same problem. Through the exigencies of a professional life, it became necessary for me to be separated from a member of my family with whom I am constantly associated and whom I dearly love, so that the parting, though not likely to be of very great duration, seemed at first a greater burden than I could bear. I have been a student of Christian Science for several years, and I went to work, as we are taught in this great truth, to find out what wrong thinking had brought about the necessity for this lesson, and what was to be learned therefrom. The result was the uncovering in my thought of a sense of dependence on human personality, which astonished me, as I had always been accustomed to think of myself, even before coming into Christian Science, as a strong and self-reliant woman, and since then had believed myself to be relying solely upon God.

I asked for help from another member of my family, through whom I came into Science, and was told by her that if I had two children who loved each other so dearly that they turned to me only when they wanted something, and then forgot all about me, I could readily see what a wrong and unhappy state of affairs that would be. The simple illustration seemed to throw a flood of light on my problem, and I at once began to work to realize that God, good, as the author of all things, must be loved and trusted supremely, and before all else. This in itself enables man to love his brother more unselfishly and more helpfully, since, as our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, tells us, "Love is reflected in love" (Science and Health, p. 17). This realization was followed by a peaceful sense of the ever-presence of divine Love, which healed my belief in loneliness and separation, as I knew that the one loving Father holds us all safe in infinite Mind, and that in reality there can be no separation for God's ideas.

I have had numberless helpful proofs of the truth of Christian Science, but this seems to me one of the greatest of them all, and it is difficult for me to express the gratitude I feel, both for the uncovering of the error and its destruction.

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