Testimony of Healing November 17, 1945 Issue

A few years after becoming interested...

Doris T. Soulsburg

A few years after becoming interested in Christian Science I began to experience difficulty with my heart. The condition continued for some time, and caused me so much fear that I resigned from my position with the idea of spending more time studying the writings of Mary Baker Eddy.

After about three months of diligent work to know the truth about heart and action the trouble still persisted. Then one day when I was studying the Tenets, given in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 497), I came across the one that reads in part, "But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts." I saw at once that it was the belief in sin that needed healing. That moment I asked God to reveal to me the specific sin, for I realized I was believing in much sin. Our Leader has written (ibid., p. 542). "The belief of life in matter sins at every step."

My answer came at once. It flashed into my thought that I was making a reality of an inharmonious condition that had existed between two young women whom I knew. I had been thinking one had wronged the other beyond forgiveness. It had seemed so real that I had fully accepted it in my thought, feeling disturbed every time I thought about it. The instant the error was uncovered I reversed it by knowing that the true individuality of each one is God-created, and that no such condition could have taken place, since there is only one Mind. The only thing that had transpired was good. I then expressed gratitude that this was true, and that nothing could change this truth, for it was of God and was changeless. Immediately I was freed from the heart trouble, and have remained free in the eight years that have followed. I realize now what Mrs. Eddy means where she says in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 11). "Sickness is the schoolmaster, leading you to Christ."

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