Testimony of Healing November 5, 1921 Issue

On page 323 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

E. B. Sargant

On page 323 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says: "Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we are helped onward in the march towards righteousness, peace, and purity, which are the landmarks of Science." Chastisements of this nature, for which I am profoundly grateful, have obliged me to relinquish many false beliefs, beliefs that reason had long since told me were untenable, but which my grasp of Principle had not enabled me to cast out.

From the mere onlooker's point of view I seemed to be very ill. Sleeplessness and a feeling of great bodily weakness were my constant companions. Added to all this was a pronounced tendency to self-condemnation. Those who, at any time, have been exposed to a rising tide of such suggestions of wretchedness will know how difficult it is not to be submerged by the oncoming flood. It is only the divine law of Mind that can effectually rescue one from a condition of this kind. Christian Science is that law, and it was Christian Science that, as so often before, came to my aid. To those who were my helpers in this extremity I shall never be able adequately to express my gratitude. Nor can I say how often words of our textbook made Scriptural promises once more a fountain of living waters, and brought me comfort and an assurance of well-being. My friends are all struck by my physical healing. But this is to me the least part of the change that has taken place. I see more clearly than I ever saw before that self-condemnation is the helf-brother to self-righteousness and an equally effective tool of evil—and that none among us can lawfully attempt to condemn the only man there is; that is, man made in the image and likeness of divine Mind.

I wish also to express my gratitude for the writings of our Leader, for the weekly Lesson-Sermon, and also for the literature published by The Christian Science Publishing Society. This literature expresses the message of Christian Science more and more clearly as the years go on, and it often arouses the interest of those who have not yet had an opportunity of studying Mrs. Eddy's writings. Of that noble woman I will only say that she has again brought a great light to "such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death," and that every one who has been privileged in some degree to demonstrate the Christ-healign which she taught is glad to rise up and call her blessed.

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