Testimony of Healing July 15, 1933 Issue

Christian Science is my greatest blessing

Lois M. McKinnie

Christian Science is my greatest blessing. It came into my life when I was a child and has guided and protected me daily and hourly since. I have had wonderful physical healings, among them one of eye trouble. Jesus said, "Blessed are your eyes for they see." This I have proved to be true. Before I was twenty years of age my right eye troubled me very suddenly, and grew worse rapidly, until I could not distinguish light from darkness. At this time an eye specialist said that the sight was gone from that eye, and he expressed much anxiety about the other eye. It was at this crucial hour that I took up the study of Christian Science in earnest, and from the time I took my stand for Christian Science there was a steady improvement, until I finally received my healing. I realized that eyes are "spiritual discernment,—not material but mental," as Mrs. Eddy defines them in Science and Health (p. 586). Sight, therefore, is not in matter to be lost.

A healing for which I feel a deep sense of gratitude is one over self-will or a very willful disposition. I am especially grateful for the many lessons I learned, as it required much time, with patient and earnest labor; for I read, studied, and prayed to be free. Because of this trait many others which are unlike the child of God were manifested. As Paul expressed it, "The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do." This healing makes me very happy, because it is causing me to love my fellow man, rather than to criticize. It is teaching me when to remain silent and to eliminate self, and is consequently making me more humble.

I am living at a mine in the mountains, and I cannot find words to express my gratitude for the Christian Science literature, bringing messages to me, daily, weekly, and monthly. The Christian Science Sentinel each week, with the pages of testimonies, serves as the midweek service for me, and I appreciate The Christian Science Monitor more each day. It is needless to say how very grateful I am for Christian Science, but I am striving to live and to serve so as to prove my gratitude—(Mrs.) Lois M. McKinnie, Callahan, California.

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