Testimony of Healing April 29, 1939 Issue

About eleven years ago I took up the study of Christian Science...

Mildred B. Edwards

About eleven years ago I took up the study of Christian Science in order to help my husband, who was at that time suffering from a physical difficulty which the best physicians were unable to cure. In a short time his healing was accomplished through the study of Christian Science and with the help of a practitioner. Since then we have continued to study Christian Science. It was not, however, until four years ago that I really put aside everything else and seriously took up the study. At that time a dear one in my home was ill, and although Christian Science was radically relied upon and we had the help of a practitioner, the healing did not come for many months. These months of work and study brought us closer to God than we had ever been before, taught us much we needed to learn, and gave us a greater appreciation of the Cause of Christian Science and a greater love for its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, and proved to us what Mrs. Eddy has written in Science and Health (pp. 265, 266), "The pains of sense are salutary, if they wrench away false pleasurable beliefs and transplant the affections from sense to Soul, where the creations of God are good, 'rejoicing the heart.'" The healing was finally accomplished, and this one was restored to health and a greater sense of activity than he had ever known before.

Prior to this healing, a social life had been all that I cared for, and I had spent all my time and thought on just having a good time, and considered these things absolutely necessary to my happiness. However, after the months of anxiety for the welfare of this one so near and dear to me, and the study and consecration that it took to unsee this error, I found that the things that once seemed so important to my happiness were but husks, and I no longer cared for them. All I seemed to care to do was to study the Bible and the writings of our Leader. With this study came a desire for church membership and a longing to work for the Cause of Christian Science. During the months of study, the practitioner who was helping us brought out the necessity for every student of Christian Science to know how to work for the world and for the Cause, and she led us so wisely and well to see how this work could be done that from that time to this I have had but one desire, namely, to gain a better understanding of God and man and to know how to think so that it will benefit all mankind. For two years I stayed close to my books, reading, studying, and working all my waking hours, and I can say that these were the happiest years I ever spent. During this time I was admitted to membership in a branch church and also in The Mother Church, and for this I am very grateful.

The irrepressible desire which I had, to learn about God and to work for the Cause of Christian Science, has brought into my experience many beautiful things. Blessings have come fast, and my days are now filled with the most joyous activity. I have gained a much higher understanding of friendship, and I know now what real happiness is. It is not found in material ways, and it is something that "no man taketh from you." Mrs. Eddy tells us in the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. VIII, Sect. 15), "God requires our whole heart, and He supplies within the wide channels of The Mother Church dutiful and sufficient occupation for all its members." This I have proved true, and this "dutiful and sufficient occupation" is the loveliest and greatest thing that can come into our experience. I am grateful to say that in turning from the material so-called pleasures I saw so clearly their emptiness that I did not have any sense of giving up anything. The study of Christian Science is not a giving-up process, it is a natural growth Spiritward.

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