Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy,...

Mabel Crago Elliott

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in her sermon entitled "Christian Healing" (p. 19), "Tireless Being, patient of man's procrastination, affords him fresh opportunities every hour." I am grateful for this encouragement, because I have long desired to write a testimony expressing my gratitude for the ministrations of Christian Science.

From the beginning of my study of Christian Science I have had many healings; and through long periods of prayer and study have been beautifully sustained and protected when the way seemed hard and progress apparently slow. At such times it was comforting to remember a verse from a hymn (Hymnal, No. 87):

O blest is he to whom is given
The instinct that can tell
That God is on the field, although
He seems invisible.

I shall never be able to express in words the love and gratitude I feel toward the kind practitioners who have so willingly and patiently helped me in times of need. I have had instantaneous healings of influenza. Headaches, toothaches, cuts and bruises, sprained ankles, and other minor ills have also yielded quickly to the healing power of Truth, without my having help from practitioners.

Other problems which seemed very real to me were gradually solved through the help of consecrated practitioners. The most outstanding healing was that of a severe nervous breakdown. The help I was given brought great spiritual uplift and led to increased understanding.

Among healings which make my daily living happier and more useful is freedom from resentment, personal criticism, and similar qualities of thought. I am grateful for God's guidance, for spiritual progress, and for all the demonstrations of good which I am daily experiencing. "God requires our whole heart, and He supplies within the wide channels of The Mother Church dutiful and sufficient occupation for all its members" (Church Manual, Art. VIII, Sect. 15).

I am humbly grateful for membership in The Mother Church, and for service in a branch church. I am grateful for all the activities of this great movement, and especially for class instruction.— (Mrs.) Mabel Crago Elliott, Washington, Pennsylvania.

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