Testimony of Healing September 13, 1941 Issue

Christian Science has made me grateful for the wonderful...

Donna B. Loughran

Christian Science has made me grateful for the wonderful healing truth revealed to me through its study. More and more I see impersonal good expressed every day, and I am glad. I experienced continuous up and downs, and was in my extremity when I visited a Christian Science practitioner for the first time and asked for help. The hope that came to me that day has never been lost. I have passed through trials since then without being harmed by them, and each time the lessons learned and the blessings gained have far exceeded the affliction of the moment.

When I first started earnestly to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly every day, I could not keep my thought on the reading, I seemed so mentally confused. Persistence and constant knowing that nothing is too hard for God, and that Truth could heal this condition, have brought about a state of receptivity with which nothing seems to interfere. I have come to a place where I see that everything negative or erroneous is only an argument to keep me from obeying the First Commandment, and I refuse to let mortal mind argue. I know it cannot keep me from my best and greatest good, which is to love God supremely. The physical healings have been numerous and varied. I am especially grateful for the spiritual uplift, the peace, joy, freedom of spirit, and quietness of heart I am able to demonstrate with the help of Christian Science. The turbulence and tumult in my heart seemed to me to be beyond healing, but I can truthfully say that this has passed away, and a host of errors with it. I am grateful to realize that the lump of selfishness in my consciousness is being leavened by Truth. When it was laid bare by Truth, it seemed to overwhelm me, but I know that every trace of a false selfhood will be overcome.

Membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, I count among my greatest blessings. I am very grateful to Mary Baker Eddy for the purity of thought she was able to demonstrate and for her consecration to the cause of saving humanity. I am also grateful for the loving work of all practitioners of this Science, and particularly to the practitioner who was and continues to be a constant inspiration and help to me, as well as to many other seekers after Truth.

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