I have long desired to offer my testimony of the many...

Clara Texada

I have long desired to offer my testimony of the many blessings I have received from God through the study and application of Christian Science; and while the physical healings have been numerous—some as the result of my own understanding and others from the help of Christian Science friends and practitioners—I especially wish to relate an outstanding experience which proves God's ever-presence and guidance.

Early in the year of 1935, at a time when my husband had just passed on, I was confronted with the necessity of earning my own livelihood, and I undertook to resume my profession as a schoolteacher, even though I had not taught for approximately twenty-five years. The outlook, generally, did not appear encouraging, but when I investigated the possibilities of teaching, I learned that by attending a summer course given at the Normal College of my state, where I had graduated in 1906, I could renew my diploma and become eligible. With the aid of Christian Science I fulfilled the requirement.

At this juncture, however, I should like to state that I had no assurance that I should be given a teaching assignment that fall, but through the consecrated study of Christian Science and reliance on God, I was called three days before school opened in September to accept the grade that I preferred to teach in one of the public schools nearest my home in the city where I reside.

By the time I had very happily completed nine months of school, a ruling had been passed whereby all teachers who did not have a Bachelor of Arts degree would be debarred from teaching unless they began immediately the required courses of study for the acquiring of the degree, this to be completed by January, 1940. I was one of those in this seemingly unfortunate category, but I again relied on God at this point, and began to work diligently on the prescribed courses of study, which included the Bible, psychology, education, trigonometry, ethics, history, algebra, mathematics, and Spanish, and I received my degree in the summer of 1938.

I should like to add that my entire school experience has been one of unfoldment, which has resulted in a happier frame of mind, better health, more harmonious home conditions, and a very substantial increase in salary.

In conclusion, let me express gratitude for the Christian Science literature; for membership in The Mother Church as well as in a branch church, and for active service in the latter; especially for the privilege of teaching in the Christian Science Sunday School; also for all the activities of The Mother Church through which the truth is going out into the world.—(Mrs.) Clara Texada, Alexandria, Louisiana.

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