Testimony of Healing August 23, 1947 Issue

With rejoicing I submit this testimony...

George T. Coonley

With rejoicing I submit this testimony. I am grateful for Christian Science. It has guided and helped me to solid ground, from which I wandered in a mental morass about a dozen years ago. As I look back to the time I first heard the word Principle used in reference to God and realize how divine Love cared for me in my distress, I am more grateful than I can put into words.

There have been many trials, and I have had many healings from learning to trust God, divine Love, more and from the understanding that only good unfolds. The desire for intoxicants and tobacco disappeared early in my study. A turbulent and contentious disposition that seemed continually to be involved in controversies of one kind or another has been replaced with a kindlier attitude. Obligations that appeared to be beyond my ability to meet have been met and discharged. Human relationships have been enriched, and though I encountered "the shadow of death" in the passing of a dear companion, the Comforter, Christian Science, has been with me. Anguish of body and heart has been healed through my understanding of the permanence of God's spiritual creation and His character as revealed by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy. With the perception that "the loveliness of Love is all around" (Hymnal, No. 64), life has now taken on a new aspect for me.

About two years ago, after several years occupancy of our offices, and at a time when it seemed that there was scarcely any other appropriate space available, we received without previous advice a peremptory notice from our landlord to the effect that our office suite had been rented to another tenant and our lease would not be renewed. Resentment had to be handled, of course, and I held to Mrs. Eddy's statement in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 574), where she says, "The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares." Instead of remaining in small offices on the fourth floor we located a new and much finer ground floor space in a building better for our business. To fix it up for our use it was necessary to do extensive remodeling, to completely equip and decorate at a time when it was difficult to obtain materials and contractors. But it was all done, and in thirty days we were able to move to the new location with no interruption of business. The result has been an increase in profit and an expansion of the business.

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