Testimony of Healing August 31, 1918 Issue

I turned to Christian Science for comfort and help when...

Blanche G. Norris

I turned to Christian Science for comfort and help when my heart was filled with grief, resentment, and bitterness. Christian Science gave me the Comforter, revealed to me the mother heart of God, and has made known to me the truth which enters into each and every problem of our daily life; for Love rightfully understood meets every need of humanity,—this inexhaustible Love, which blesses all. I am thankful that through the study of Christian Science I have come to understand the unreality of those things which held me in bondage. With the consciousness of this great and beautiful truth, we can never for an instant lose sight of our divine inheritance; thus our longings are satisfied and the hungry heart is filled with goodness.

Another reason why I am a Christian Scientist is that each step of the way can be demonstrated. Mrs. Eddy tells us: "Hold perpetually this thought,—that it is the spiritual idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing, based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, overlying, and encompassing all true being" (Science and Health, p. 496). If we demonstrate each step, we know we are doing the work which Jesus commanded us to do. It may take some time to make the demonstration of the healing, which we so much desire; there may be much false sense to overcome; we may need to learn the lesson of patience, as well as many other lessons, but the promise is that when we search for the truth with our whole heart, we shall find it. If we are searching for the love which never fails, we shall recognize God's law, and the unreality of man-made laws when they come before us to be destroyed.

I will speak of a healing, in the hope that by so doing others will be blessed as I have been. From childhood I had been in bondage to waves of grief which would come over me and make me most unhappy. I could not seem to account for this condition, for the spells would come on at any time, even in the midst of great joy and happiness; sometimes they were of short duration, sometimes longer. I had nothing to be sad about that I could help; it did not seem to be despondency, but grief. It seemed as if nothing could help this condition; therefore through all the years I never spoke of it to anyone, but blamed only myself. Many times I thought it due to lack of gratitude. Some time ago a few words of Christian Science were spoken to me which opened the door of my thought, and at once I saw the unreality of this bondage, the unreality of man-made laws, of prenatal laws, of laws of heredity. I saw that it was my thought which gave these so-called laws power; that grief, sorrow, and sadness were not of God, for there is no sorrow in divine Mind. Being God's child, then, I could express only joy and love. This was the real, and the unreal vanished. I found myself no longer in bondage to the unreal. Christian Science was the Comforter, and divine Love the healer. No human tongue can tell what this healing means to me. I rejoice and am "exceeding glad." I thank God for His gentle leading, tenderness, and watchful care, and for Christian Science, which never fails.

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