Testimony of Healing October 7, 1911 Issue

With the hope that some on who is

Eugenia Lockwood

With the hope that some one who is coming into Christian Science in the midst of seeming opposition may be encouraged therby, I offer the following testimony. When I took my stand for Truth, and knew that it was the fountain of living waters, of which if one drank he would never thirst again, I met with seemingly great opposition. Being one of a large family, none of whom entertained the right conception of the teaching of Christian Science, there seemed to be much to overcome, and like other students I longed to get away by myself and study unmolested. This did not seem the wisest course to take, however, and therefore I remained at home, intending to press on, no matter what happened.

To my limited understanding I wanted to overcome everything at once, but I found that only by working out of each phase of error that presented itself could I make real progress. Though seemingly surrounded by an impassable sea, my way became clear when I knew that God was with me and would never forsake me. By remaining at home and meeting the situation in love, I learned many lessons which I could not have learned had I gone away. The leaven commenced to work. One by one shackles fell away, and after several years of patient perseverance, now in a valley, now on the top of a mountain, I began to rejoice in my tribulation and to be glad that I had these opportunities to overcome error with Truth. Every time an obstacle was put in my path and overcome in the right way, it became transformed into a stepping-stone to that higher consciousness of Life and Love.

During this process of elimination I have realized the meaning of the words of Jesus when he said, "By their fruits ye shall know them," because I knew the only way to overcome this erroneous concept of what Christian Science is, was to live it to the best of my ability. In order to do so I had to look constantly within and turn the search-light of Christian Science into the very depths of human consciousness, so that I might uncover the errors which were holding me in bondage to material ways of thinking. The victory is great over the uprooting of a single weed. Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings": "The warfare with one's self is grand" (p. 118), and so I am finding it to be. I can truly say I am glad I had so much to work out of, because I know that all I know, and the hardest lessons I have learned, I would not have profited by except for this seemingly great opposition.

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