Testimony of Healing October 23, 1943 Issue

I deem it my duty to testify to...

Colette R. Van der Zijl

I deem it my duty to testify to the fact that Christian Science, as discovered and founded by Mary Baker Eddy, is indeed the Science of Life, and that Life is God. I am most thankful to have learned that every deed is the result of thought activity, and that therefore everything takes place in consciousness; that we live in reality as spiritual ideas, not as persons of flesh and bones, and that if we entertain thoughts having their origin in one infinite Mind, divine Principle, we shall see the oneness of being, and be able to say with Job, "Yet in my flesh shall I see God."

This sentence came to me at the end of an occurrence which I shall relate. Some years ago I lived in a country place where there was a wooded district in which people said it was not safe to walk alone. These thoughts came to me: "I want to study my Lesson-Sermon, and have come to this place to enjoy the beauty of it. No harm can come out of this. Since God is omnipresent what is there to fear?"

So I went to the wood and had been lying down there for some time, studying the Bible and our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, when I heard footsteps which stopped just behind my head. Daring eyes looked down upon me. I turned my head away from them, and to this man who had indicated that he wanted money I said: "I have found out the truth of the Apostle Paul's words, 'We live, and move, and have our being' in God. Then, too, I know now that our riches are God's ideas, and when we use them, then we demonstrate wealth. Therefore your wealth is mine and mine is yours." After a silence the one behind me said: "That point I can see. That point I can accept." There was a silence again. Then he murmured something. When I asked him what he had said, the answer was, "Safe in arms that are safe." Then he left me. I remembered Job's words. "In my flesh shall I see God." Words fail to express my gratitude at that moment.

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