Testimony of Healing August 29, 1925 Issue

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Ruth Craig Cormack

It gives me pleasure to have this means of expressing my gratitude in the Christian Science periodicals for some workable knowledge of Christian Science. I have never known any other religion, science, or medicine. Born and brought up in Science, I have witnessed the overcoming of lack for my widowed mother as her faith and understanding grew apace. While I had many of the so-called children's diseases, they were light cases, with no after effects. When the time came for me to have higher education, we found ourselves so located that I obtained the best needed.

It was when I was away at college that I first felt I proved and accepted these teachings of my childhood,—when I could not run to mother quite so easily. In one instance, by gaining a self-effacing spiritual perception of God as Love, and this Love everywhere, I was able to overcome a very severe cold in half an hour. At another time all sense of pain was eliminated from a badly frozen toe, and shoes were worn after the first day. The rooming house I was in was quarantined for ten days during an epidemic of scarlet fever. Though some of us had been exposed before the patient was removed from the building, no one developed the disease. Through my mother's loving work in Science, all fear of the disease left me. As a result of my realization that intelligence is an expression of divine Mind, God, and not a mortal's mental gymnastics, problems in my studies and examinations became easy. In the two years I taught school, this same realization that divine Mind, God, governs man, both pupils and teacher, solved the seemingly stupendous problem of discipline. During the second year the principal sent to my already full room a boy another teacher would endure no longer. The boy had been expelled from private schools, and had been an inmate of a reform farm school. Understanding that matter is powerless to think or act, and that divine Mind governs harmoniously, I had no trouble with him. The lad responded to love and sympathy, caused no disturbance in the room, worked hard, and finished his grade with the class.

And still each day's study adds to my little store of knowledge of God, and fills each day with greater cause for gratitude. I can never be grateful enough for the sustaining love of God that has been revealed to me since becoming a wife and mother, living in a different part of the country, in a different climate, with different modes of living. With the absent help of my mother, I found myself in the neighborhood of a loving, motherly Scientist at the time of the birth of my baby girl. With the neighbor's presence and my mother's absent treatment fear of the doctor's presence departed. A young mother's fear for her first child was dispelled, and the child unfolds like a rose. "Mother's Evening Prayer" by Mary Baker Eddy (Poems, p. 4), is my baby's lullaby. She is truly a sunbeam. We have had but little nighttime disturbance. Wee daughter thinks it her duty to nap when taken to church. I understand that her Father and Mother is God.

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