Testimony of Healing December 28, 1918 Issue

The golden text of a Lesson-Sermon, "Withhold not good...

Maud B. Warren

The golden text of a Lesson-Sermon, "Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it," has made me realize that I should acknowledge, through our periodicals, the good which Christian Science has brought to me. I did not turn to it on my own account, but through its faithful study, in order to help another, I found all that I need for the solving of physical, mental, moral, and financial problems.

When sorrow came into my life it was Chrsitan Science that sustained and upheld me, that made me able to comfort others "by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." When it seemed as if my work of caring and doing for others had been taken from me, divine Love placed me as a special teacher in a school for Christian Science children; and I have had the happiness of seeing how every problem can be worked out through reliance upon Principle. Then came teaching in a Christian Science Sunday school, and all the time there was the joy of healing work for myself and others. I have never had any so-called big things to overcome, but know that this has been because I have realized that Christian Science is a prophylactic, a preventive, and manifestations of discord have been taken up so quickly and rebuked by Truth that error has had no time to grow.

A short time ago I had a sense of being pressed with work, a dislike for the crowded street cars, and had voiced these feelings several times, so that I was not surprised one morning to awaken with a sense of dizziness. I kept up for a while, but suddenly felt myself growing cold and faint. Having had fainting spells before, I knew I needed help, and my first thought was for that daily bread of ours, the Lesson Sermon. I reached for my books, but at first could not see to read, so I kept quite still and declared that the healing thought was there. Then I began to read, and in the first section was the statement, "To discern the rhythm of Spirit ...thought must be purely spiritual" (Science and Health, p. 510). The words "rhythm of Spirit" held my attention, and I recalled how I had once read that astronomers say that if one could hear the noise which the planets make in their revolutions it would be a musical sound. I thought I began to see what Mrs. Eddy meant in those words; also the beautiful words from the Bible, "The morning stars sang together." As I read on the truth came and I got up at once and went about my household duties, feeling that I understood as never before what a fifteen-year-old boy meant when, after hearing a Lesson-Sermon read, although in seeming pain he looked up and said, "The earth is just full of goodness, mother, 'deed it is!"

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