Testimony of Healing November 15, 1947 Issue

My song of gratitude for Christian Science...

Dora Stevenson with contributions from Laura Stevenson Vesper

My song of gratitude for Christian Science and the blessings I have received through its study and application is long overdue.

Through many unhappy experiences I learned that real healing cannot be expected without regeneration. Erroneous beliefs of self must yield to the law of God. My struggle seemed long and hard, but I am grateful that I can now say, as did the Master (Luke 22:42), "Not my will, but thine, be done." Wonderful healings and liberation have been mine since I reached this state of thinking.

Several years ago, when I seemed to have more trials than I could endure, the words of Hymn No. 82 in the Christian Science Hymnal came as an angel direct from God. "'God is working His purpose out' for me," I thought; and that realization and the hope it brought became a tower of strength. Then one night, when the specter of death seemed to stand beside my bed for several hours and I rather welcomed it, over and over came the angel thought, "Love looseth thee," from Mrs. Eddy's statement (Poems, p. 79):

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