Testimony of Healing November 11, 1939 Issue

I have been a member of The Mother Church and of a...

CLARA LOUISE GEISLER

I have been a member of The Mother Church and of a branch church for a number of years, and have received rich blessings from the study and application of Christian Science. There is a verse in Psalms which reads, "I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." This promise has been fulfilled many times in my experience. When I have lived up to my highest sense of right, as taught in Christian Science, unexpected good has come to me.

In the year 1931, I was employed in a position which I had held for several years. For some time I had felt that I had reached the limit of my capacity in the particular branch of work in which I was engaged. Another branch of the work attracted me, but I was reminded that we were in the depths of a terrible financial depression, and was told that I should be glad to have any position at all, and grateful to be so well established where I was. It was also pointed out that the work which I desired was hazardous and overcrowded. Whenever these and other arguments became too loud, I would try to remember that real progress is spiritual, and that I could be only where I would be most useful.

One day a large cut was made in my salary. On the way home that evening I spent some time contemplating a reduction in expenses. The suggestion came that I could cut the wages of my housemaid, who had been in my service for some time. Suddenly I realized that what I needed was a larger understanding of God's ever-available abundance, which was not subject to material conditions. I saw that if I cut the wages of this maid I would be adding to the world's belief of lack. Right then I decided that I would not pass along to another the belief in lack, but would try to make better use of such qualities as alertness and wisdom.

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