Testimony of Healing March 5, 1938 Issue

I think I am most grateful for Christian Science because...

Ruth M. Favret

I think I am most grateful for Christian Science because it has made the wonderful promises of the Bible glow with reality. I had always read the Bible, and particularly enjoyed the Psalms, the New Testament, and portions of the Old Testament, but the Revelation of St. John distressed me very much. How one could contrive to be numbered among the "saved" presented an unsolvable problem. And yet, Mrs. Eddy states in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 577), that St. John's "vision is the acme of this Science as the Bible reveals it."

The truth of this statement has begun to dawn upon my consciousness within the past few years through a special study of Revelation, together with all of Mrs. Eddy's writings; and so much good has unfolded that I can never be grateful enough for it. With this added light has come a much greater appreciation of the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, and a clearer insight into the whole Bible. Mrs. Eddy states on page 24 of Science and Health. "Acquaintance with the original texts, and willingness to give up human beliefs (established by hierarchies, and instigated sometimes by the worst passions of men), open the way for Christian Science to be understood, and make the Bible the chart of life, where the buoys and healing currents of Truth are pointed out."

Christian Science healing has permeated "the minutiæ of human affairs" (Miscellaneous Writings by Mrs. Eddy, p. 204) enough in my own experience to make me realize that it does really offer a full salvation. During the early days of the depression, when disaster threatened on several occasions, God's loving provision for His children was proved in ways that would have seemed miraculous to any other than a Christian Scientist. What appeared to be insurmountable financial difficulties were completely overcome, and the lessons learned unfolded a much higher understanding of true substance.

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