Testimony of Healing August 15, 1931 Issue

True religion is the most joyous thing in life, and Christian Science...

Gordon Fletcher

True religion is the most joyous thing in life, and Christian Science is true religion. I have found it to be so true that I am filled with an enduring content that I should have been privileged to begin, in a humble way, to study it, and thus to glimpse God and heaven in an entirely new light. Christian Science was first introduced to my notice by my wife, and year by year it is unfolding for me in a growing understanding of God as the tender Father of spiritual man, the divine creator of everything that is pure and lovely and "of good report."

In "Miscellaneous Writings" our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written (p. 330), "With each returning year, higher joys, holier aims, a purer peace and diviner energy, should freshen the fragrance of being." One feels full of gratitude that these ideals should come before us, through Christian Science, and be proved in many glorious overcomings.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 450), "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good." Looking back over the last three or four years, I can recollect much happiness for which I must thank Christian Science. While I am aware that I have a long way yet to go, I am very definitely conscious of being a better man, mentally and physically, than I have ever been before. For one thing, I have been healed of personal habits which are not a part of God's man. I have also been healed of unlovely traits of disposition and outlook; of arrested hearing which attacked me, but which in Christian Science was soon reduced to nothingness. I have been liberated from bondage to the smoking habit; and I have been healed of sorrow at the passing on of a member of my family.

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