Testimony of Healing November 2, 1940 Issue

Christian Science has completely revolutionized my life....

MARY SCOTT

Christian Science has completely revolutionized my life. Seeking pleasure, glory, and honor in matter always left me with a keen sense of dissatisfaction and disappointment. Mrs. Eddy elucidates this point in Science and Health (p. 66), "Spiritual development germinates not from seed sown in the soil of material hopes, but when these decay, Love propagates anew the higher joys of Spirit, which have no taint of earth."

The time came when my little daughters asked me about God—who and what He is. I had seen Christian Science heal a friend and had also heard of the good it was doing. The desire to give the children the truth prompted me to enroll them in a Christian Science Sunday School, and this desire was the seed that grew to bless me too. We were the only ones among our relatives interested in Christian Science, and though we were laughed at, we kept on with our study. A world of beauty and goodness was unfolding to our view. The tenacious habit of smoking loosened its grasp on me, and social drinking became repulsive. The desire to do and be good revealed glimpses of true selfhood, ever pure, complete, and satisfied.

However, a testing time came when, through radical reliance on Him, I was forced to prove my dominion as a free and perfect child of God. The experience was difficult at the time, but great growth and activity resulted from the overcoming. God's promise, "I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: . . . until he come whose right it is," was being demonstrated, and I am now experiencing, step by step, a greater sense of freedom of thought and action.

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