Testimony of Healing October 13, 1917 Issue

Because the help received from Christian Science has been...

Alice Muriel Tripp

Because the help received from Christian Science has been mental and moral rather than physical, I have long delayed offering my testimony for publication; but I now gladly subscribe the following in the hope that some one of similar temperament may perhaps find interest in the experiences which taught me that "if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself."

I am deeply grateful for the health and happiness which Christian Science has brought to me, but much more so for the reconstruction of thought and character which has been taking place ever since this divine influence first touched my life. Even as a child I had an intense longing to make people happy; at home we were taught from our earliest days to love and help the poor, and the poor gradually became such an obsession with me that finally I really had no other interest or ambition than to help them. When I left school the longing to do something became intensified, and without stopping to consider if I was spiritually qualified for so high an ideal, I gave myself up to what is called "good works;" but I had a dissatisfied sense throughout that at best we were bringing only momentary gleams of sunshine into darkened lives and were not effecting any permanent or radical result.

After beginning to study Christian Science I saw quite clearly that our failure was due to the fact that we were dealing with effects, while leaving untouched the essential causes of human misery, and that Christian Science alone uncovers the cause of human wretchedness and destroys it. As a result, interest in my former pursuits and activities faded out and intrenched itself in Christian Science. Just as this teaching has healed other people of the belief that they were sick or sinful, so it healed me of the belief that I was personally good. I know that nothing but the relentless light of Truth shining into my consciousness could have revealed to me the selfishness, self-righteousness, and self-love lurking there.

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