Testimony of Healing April 7, 1928 Issue

In the eighty-fourth psalm are to be found these words:...

Richard R. Norman

In the eighty-fourth psalm are to be found these words: "The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." The truth of these words has been proved in my experience, for as honest effort has been made to fulfill the condition necessary to the receiving of the "good thing," I have been healed of the tobacco habit of many years' standing, have experienced almost instantaneous healings of influenza on two occasions when the disease seemed violent, have been brought scatheless through four years of war, which included service on the Somme and in Palestine.

An outstanding experience, of which I want to tell, well illustrates how capable of proof are the teachings of our revered Leader. On page 574 of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes, "The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares." It did seem a wrathful and afflictive circumstance that after an almost continuous association with a certain business firm for twenty years, I should be told that my services were no longer required. However, the sovereign remedy for all our troubles was at hand in Christian Science, and my wife and I asked help from a practitioner in the field where this took place. I well remember the practitioner's first words, "This may be the big angel." It was a little difficult then to see any angel at all in the matter, let alone a big one; but the practitioner was helping us with the problem. I must say that, as a result of her work, within two days we were healed of all resentment. We were also healed of fear and despair. It was fortunate for us that with this violent upset came what seemed to me a very difficult remedy. My attention was drawn to the following lines from "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 242), by Mrs. Eddy: "Christian Science is absolute; it is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom. Unless you fully perceive that you are the child of God, hence perfect, you have no Principle to demonstrate and no rule for its demonstration." Here, indeed, was an ultimatum. Unless I accepted this truth I was without a rule by which to work. It left me no choice. If I wanted to think of the spiritual concept of myself as perfect, it involved seeing the same perfect concept for my neighbor. The fact that no resentment was entertained after two days shows how effective the work of the practitioner proved. It was then decided to move to a different field, and it was considered wise to have a practitioner there take up the problem. In a comparatively short time an opportunity for service and employment came, at which work I have been ever since. As a result of this experience it is hardly to be wondered at that I should express my gratitude to God for the wonderful truth made clear in Christian Science by Mrs. Eddy. I want also to acknowledge with gratitude the help which I had from the two practitioners and from the Christian Science literature.

As a matter of interest I may add that I started work within a day of the expiration of the period for which I had been given a check in lieu of notice; and, further, that my name was mentioned for the position by a gentlemen who I thought was withholding certain money due me, but about whom also I had to change my thought. It was necessary to get back to the perfect concept in this instance, too, before the problem was harmoniously solved.

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