Testimony of Healing December 1, 1945 Issue

"The aspiration after heavenly...

Irma Stewart

"The aspiration after heavenly good comes even before we discover what belongs to wisdom and Love." This statement from page 265 of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, depicts my state of thought when Christian Science first came to my attention. The inability of orthodox Christian doctrines to cope logically with fundamental questions had caused me to explore many other avenues of human thought, only to become in the end militantly agnostic. Although I suffered intermittently from a serious and increasingly distressing form of neuritis, it was not the expectation of physical healing which quickened my initial interest in Christian Science, my introduction to which came by way of a Wednesday testimony meeting.

Notwithstanding the fact that my girlhood and young womanhood had been actively associated with the study of the Bible, I saw a new meaning in the selection from the eighth chapter of Romans, read that evening. It was that there is no condemnation for that state of thought which is "in Christ Jesus" (v. 1), because from such a premise one walks not after fleshly concepts but according to spiritual values.

Later during the service a testimony, the human details of which have long since escaped my memory, revealed such deep spiritual feeling that it was as though a door had been opened upon a beautiful garden, the existence of which I had never before suspected. I saw as it were a land where human estimates count for nothing, and where spiritual values alone are real. All the way home, and for many days thereafter, the words of the Spirit "to the angel of the church in Philadelphia" kept singing in my heart: "Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it" (Rev. 3:7, 8). Little wonder that the next day I purchased the textbook! Gratified by its logic, I began the serious study of its message.

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