Testimony of Healing June 12, 1948 Issue

Many are the things which I...

Ellen Morehouse with contributions from William Kouwenhoven

Many are the things which I have to be grateful for, and they are the result of a small but growing understanding of Christian Science.

Since the days of my early teens this Science has been the only answer to all my problems, mental and physical. This wonderful, all-powerful truth has brought me through many difficult times, always lifting me above the claims of mortal mind and ever beckoning me onward and upward to greater freedom form the bonds of material sense.

Although I had attended a Christian Science Sunday School for several years, I was not what might be termed an earnest student of this Science until a crisis in my life brought me closer to God and showed me that regardless of evidence to the contrary, "no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires." This statement is from a sentence by our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, on page 1 of Science and Health, which reads, "Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds." This thought was a great comfort and helped me tremendously in readjusting my sense of values and my aims after this personal catastrophe seemed to have robbed me of all that I had held most dear and requisite for my happiness. As the truth of this statement was realized, I was able to rise above the loss of home, human love, and security. As I studied and pondered the latter part of the sentence about our desires being "moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds," real happiness was attained, and a better understanding of what is worth while took the place of more material thinking.

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