Testimony of Healing October 3, 1925 Issue

I should like to express a little of my gratitude for Christian Science

Arthur Percy Jones

I should like to express a little of my gratitude for Christian Science. I was a worker in the Baptist denomination, doing my utmost, according to my lights, to bring the kingdom of heaven nearer. In 1912, the words, "We so often preach and teach, not from present, but from past experience of God," given in a sermon, disturbed me greatly; for I knew I could not prove in any practical way the reality or presence of God. Then I began to ask myself: What or where is God, life, heaven? If God, life, heaven were on the other side of the grave, of what use was it to continue the unsatisfying struggle for existence here? I thought of the seeming eternal round of birth, growth, death down the ages, and could not see that the world was better, or happier, for millions of people having lived, or that it would be any better for my having lived.

After nearly nine months of mental turmoil Christian Science was presented to me, and immediately I recognized it as the answer to the riddle and to all my whys and wherefores. I saw that God is Love, and abundant Life here and now, and that through understanding this great truth of God I could realize man's sonship with God, and have the power, and do the works Jesus did and said we should do.

In September, 1915, I went to France and spent the winter of 1915-16 in the trenches before Ypres, and soon found that the understanding I had of God as All-power had wonderfully delivered me from fear. The ninety-first psalm was always with me, especially this sentence: "His truth shall be thy shield and buckler." For, I said, God is all-powerful; therefore He is stronger than a brick wall; I will trust in God rather than in a brick wall, and do my duty. Later I took the words, "In him we live, and move, and have our being," saying that since God is all-powerful, I in Him would be safe until God Himself was hurt or destroyed—something impossible to occur.

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