Testimony of Healing May 25, 1946 Issue

The beauty of Christian Science...

Neona Fre Grunbeck

The beauty of Christian Science began to dawn upon me when, as a child of twelve, it was my privilege to become acquainted with a woman who told me she had been blind but had been healed in Science. This woman had gained the added ability to discern the hungriness of a child thought for more spirituality, and she unselfishly and bountifully fed that hunger. Then I saw my mother healed of a cataract of the eye, and another beloved relative healed of tuberculosis, which healing was later confirmed by a rigid medical examination. I myself experienced a healing of neuritis as I grew into womanhood.

In recent years, when a dentist told me of a cavity in one of my teeth, I instantly and silently declared for perfection, remembering an unusual healing in connection with her teeth which my mother had experienced through Christian Science. I had felt pain in that tooth but thought it was another one where an old filling had to be renewed. This old work presented a problem that was not solved by this or the second dentist visited, who also told me of the new cavity. Again I held to the truth that man reflects God, not partially but fully, and in a degree I realized the importance of clinging to the truth of being instead of believing in the evidences of the senses.

A third dentist was consulted later. Meanwhile class instruction in Christian Science had given me more inspiration, more enlightenment, and more confidence in the Principle of our being. The old dental work was satisfactorily corrected by this dentist. But when he, too, told me of the cavity that needed filling, I was willing to do whatever seemed best under the circumstances, and made an appointment to have the work done. I had worked earnestly and consistently during this long period of time, and believed that it would be wiser to have a dentist fill that tooth properly, according to his highest standard of human perfection, than to have the thought of imperfection continue to be manifested. I felt a great sense of gratitude that I was willing to trust God, remembering this sentence, which has always appealed to me (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 485): "Think not to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come naturally into Spirit through better health and morals and as the result ofspiritual growth." Since then I have thought of Abraham's willingness to obey, according to his understanding, God's command regarding the sacrifice of his son, Isaac, and of how beautifully this obedience was rewarded. (See Genesis 22:1–14.)

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