Testimony of Healing September 4, 1943 Issue

In "Science and Health with...

Neva P. Arnold

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary-Baker Eddy (p. 571) we read, "Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil." This statement has been proved to me many times. One outstanding experience has been of great help not only to me but to others who know of it.

Twelve years ago, when the business depression was at its worst, I was left with three dependent children, no job, no friends, no home, and enough money to last possibly two weeks. Although I was a student of Christian Science, the hopelessness of my situation, the mesmerism of the times, fear of want for my children, claimed to overpower me at times. Often it seemed impossible to go on, but I continued in spite of obstacles.

In previous years I had been a high school teacher, but there were no positions available in such critical times, and, besides, this was my opportunity to prove that primarily Mind, and not a salary, was my source of supply. In my extremity I took a course of training to sell an encyclopedia. Afterwards I was sent to a town where business conditions were unusually bad, and it was impossible to sell anything. I continued my work, however, though mortal mind insisted that I was afraid, discouraged, exhausted, and miserable. All these claims were proved powerless to destroy what I had learned of true substance during my years of study of Christian Science. "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay" (ibid., p. 468). I had learned that God is Mind, and that man is His idea; therefore man and all that concerns him are spiritually mental, and exist independently of mortal mind with all its claims. That understanding of substance could not be touched by error. Even though error kept on screaming, the truth prevailed, and "day by day the manna fell," as the Christian Science hymn (No. 46) reads. Our daily requirements were met, and we never once lacked anything we needed.

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