Testimony of Healing November 18, 1939 Issue

I should like to express my deep gratitude for Christian Science...

Josephine McCleary

I should like to express my deep gratitude for Christian Science and testify to its healing efficacy. Although I did not become interested in Christian Science for the purpose of physical healing, I have enjoyed practically normal health during the past six years. While I was in college, my mother tried to interest me in Truth; but, being absorbed with material pleasures and indulgences, I became irritable at the mere mention of it. But when the instability of these false trusts began to manifest itself, and discord and confusion seemed all around me, I recalled certain truths about God and man to which I had unwillingly listened. God's promise, as voiced by Isaiah, "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void," was proved true, even though mortal mind tried to express resentment and lack of interest. My growth was slow, for my sole purpose in seeking Christian Science was to further my own personal interests rather than to prove the operation of God's law for the benefit of all mankind.

The thing for which I am most grateful is the gradual overcoming of many faults of character, such as selfishness, ingratitude, and stubbornness. As I see that these faults are no part of the real man, and try to know more of God and His perfect image, instead of indulging in self-condemnation, they gradually become less real to me. When Job asked Satan, "From whence comest thou?" Satan's reply was, "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." I am learning that when evil is seen to be impersonal and separate from the individual, with no claim but to go "to and fro in the earth," it becomes powerless.

I was grateful for protection from a sense of separation from my family when they were three thousand miles away. I have found that the qualities which attract me in loved ones can never be separated from me and are always present.

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