Testimony of Healing May 20, 1939 Issue

It was with joyous expectancy and a grateful heart that...

Georgia Doris King

It was with joyous expectancy and a grateful heart that I recently graduated from a large Western university. It was a happy occasion, instead of a time of apprehension, because I knew that Christian Science, understood and rightly applied, is capable of meeting any and every problem which may present itself. To me, the greatest part of the rich and healing ministry of this religion is in helping us to understand the Science of Life.

Christian Science has been both a preventive and a curative in my life. One healing for which I am especially grateful took place when I was still in grammar school. A callus had developed on the ball of one of my feet and had grown to such proportion that it was very painful for me to stand. For some time the condition did not yield, but it was finally pointed out to me by a practitioner that I was cherishing a deep hatred toward one of my playmates in school. I was told that I must learn to love the child of God. At the time, it seemed almost impossible for me to do this, but at last my heart became filled with love. Then the callus completely disappeared. The hardness of hateful thinking had indeed been melted away by the consciousness of divine Love. This was the first time that I had seen how thought controls the body and that consequently, in order to manifest a healthy body, it is necessary to accept and reflect only the thoughts of God. This lesson in the healing method of Christian Science impressed the truth of its teaching so forcibly upon me that I have never since seriously doubted its divine authenticity.

While I am grateful for the many physical healings which have been mine through the earnest effort to use Christian Science in my daily life, I am even more grateful for proof of its regenerating power. Though human nature and heredity claimed that I was stubborn, temperamental, and argumentative, besides having numerous other faults, I can gladly say that through the love which has consistently been manifested toward me by others, through their consecrated help and my own sincere resolve to be rid of every false, limiting belief, these faults have very largely been overcome. When I was laboring to see my way out of these difficulties, a loving Christian Scientist illumined my consciousness by saying, in substance: "Not one of these false beliefs has any claim on you or any power to hold on to you. Do not fight to be rid of them, but rather, dwell on the positive qualities you desire to express, and they will blot out the negative ones."

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