Testimony of Healing June 21, 1941 Issue

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

Reginald D. Slater

I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for the way it has helped me in every kind of difficulty. I have been particularly reminded recently of a proof I had a few years ago of how it adjusts circumstances in a far more harmonious manner than any human planning could devise. I was working for a firm that, owing to partnership dissolution, had to close. At the time, business generally seemed to be at a very low ebb, so that I had no apparent prospect of other work at anything like the same rate of remuneration.

This problem, however, presented itself as an opportunity to rely again on Christian Science to resolve it. Many lessons had to be learned, and the situation took some time to yield, but during all that period a sufficiency of supply came in wonderful ways. One day, however, I received a very clear revelation that abundance is a divine idea and is primarily a mental experience, a state of consciousness, which material conditions could never give. I realized that since I had clearly seen this, so-called material circumstances must adjust themselves accordingly. Although nothing occurred for some days, this did not worry me, for I felt certain that the demonstration was made. Shortly afterwards work of a very harmonious kind, and with better remuneration, was offered to me from an unexpected quarter.

I am very grateful for the working out of that problem, but I am most grateful for the spiritual lessons learned. These lessons have continued to unfold since. I should like to add my thanks for the kindly help of a consecrated practitioner, a member of that body of workers who are doing wonderful things in purifying, teaching, healing, and lifting the burdens from mankind; also for the privilege of reading the periodicals and studying all Mrs. Eddy's works, which are a constant and continuous source of healing and growth, so much needed for all nations. I should like to conclude with Mrs. Eddy's prayer (Miscellany, p. 220), "God bless my enemies; make them Thy friends; give them to know the joy and the peace of love."—Reginald D. Slater, The Baldons, Oxfordshire, England.

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