Testimony of Healing December 25, 1943 Issue

During the four years since I...

Chico Gordon-Stables

During the four years since I left the Christian Science Sunday School I have received countless blessings from the study of this Science. My attendance was intermittent, being limited to school holidays, and it was not until some months after I had left the Sunday school that I realized how priceless had been this privilege.

I feel that my gratitude can best be expressed by relating an experience which proved to me the true nature of employment. I was experiencing growing dissatisfaction with the post I held, feeling that there was no opportunity for advancement and that I was not making use of my capabilities. So. I took human footsteps to remedy this difficulty, applying to bureaus and agents in my search for a better post, but nothing presented itself which I felt was right for me. When thinking this over in the light of Christian Science I suddenly realized that my only employer was God, and that therefore my only employment was to serve Him; that this service consisted of expressing the qualities of God; that time, place, and worldly conditions had nothing to do with it, and that I could not hold a more responsible post; it was one which could not under any circumstances be terminated. From that moment I ceased to look for something better, knowing that if I were worthy of promotion it would come as a natural result of service to God; that He would provide the increase.

A short while later I was moved to look up a friend whom I had not seen for months, and she told me that one of the departmental heads of the federation for which she worked needed someone with my qualifications, but had been dreading the usual search for the right person owing to extreme pressure of work. Feeling that this was my answer, I applied for the post and was engaged at the first interview, thereby enabling the individual concerned to continue the work in hand without interruption. This post met my need and proved a happy experience.

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