Testimony of Healing January 1, 1927 Issue

Some years ago I began the study of Christian Science;...

Ruth Powell Wenban

Some years ago I began the study of Christian Science; and its logic and spiritual attraction were for me irresistible. Soon afterward I found that it was invaluable to me as a very young teacher in a notoriously unruly country school. Through the daily study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly I was able to demonstrate harmony, good will, and loving cooperation both in the school and in the community; and I also gained for myself much freedom from self-pity and from a sense of having to endure hardships. The Christian Science teaching of the oneness of Mind, infinitely individualized, is, to my thought, the greatest educational force in the world to-day, in the schoolroom or out of it. Later, I was called upon as a young wife and mother to use this great truth daily and hourly. Throughout fifteen years, leaning heavily upon divine Love, I have found its healing, harmony, and inspiration infallible.

Two children, born under Christian Science treatment, one under most harmonious conditions and the other entirely without pain, know nothing of so-called material remedies, and are strong, hale, and hearty little girls. The teaching of the Sunday school has meant more to us than I can say. My own few years in the Christian Science Sunday School had led me to appreciate its wonderful helpfulness; and as soon as the children were old enough to enter, they went to Sunday school. The elder child is able in most cases to do her own work through the understanding gained there; and as she herself says, she knows that "God did not make His children, and then go away and leave them to make their own statements of truth." When I think that this beautiful work is going on all over the world, I am filled with gratitude.

So many and varied have been the healings we have had that it would not be possible for me to name them all here. I might mention, however, that Christian Science has healed the following in our home—measles, influenza, ear trouble, nervous fatigue, chicken pox, pneumonia, and a poisonous condition of the skin, also a condition in the limb of one of the children which prevented proper walking. I am surely most grateful for all of these; but I cannot tell all it means, above all, to be identified as a worker with this great movement, and to partake of and disseminate "grace for to-day" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 17). For class instruction, which enabled me to know that I could do the work of a Christian Scientist in an effective way, I am immeasurably grateful. I also wish to write especially of my gratitude for The Christian Science Monitor. As I sincerely strive to express my gratitude in my everyday living, I know that every activity of the Cause of Christian Science will unfold itself to me in the right way, and that I shall daily grow in the understanding of what it meant to Mrs. Eddy to be the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.