Testimony of Healing May 7, 1949 Issue

True joy found through Christian Science

Lucy P. P. Frisbee

To "give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name" (Ps. 96:8) is my sincere desire. For some time it has been my earnest wish to express my gratitude to God and to Mary Baker Eddy, whose divinely inspired thought gave to the world the demonstrable truths of Christian Science. My blessings have often seemed trivial in comparison with the experiences of others, and I have been somewhat reluctant to voice them publicly. Yet these "small" blessings have completely changed my thought and my life.

Christian Science came into my life early in my teens. I was not receptive and gained little of the letter and even less of the spirit. Eventually I drifted away altogether. Not until ten years later, after I had suffered sufficiently from following the suggestions of mortal mind, did the good seed sown in adolescence finally take root. No emergency, no need for physical healing, no dire need of any sort prompted this step. I could lay claim to all that constitutes the material ideal of happiness—a fine marriage, charming children, sufficient money, friends, and the like. But I was not happy.

After trying to find happiness through varied forms of psychology, I stopped my mental struggles and turned unreservedly to the spiritual truths of God and man as revealed to us in Christian Science. Through the help of a consecrated Christian Science practitioner, many false concepts of Christian Science, of Mrs. Eddy, and of Christian Scientists were eliminated from my thinking. Recollection of the many people I had disappointed and hurt finally grew into a sincere desire to make amends for the past and to live with Love. False pride was replaced with humility and a sense of love. Love ruled out all resentment when, in one instance, my desire met with a rebuff. Although this experience was attended by physical and mental struggles over a long period of time, I am now most grateful for the realization that there is no unhappy past or uncertain future for the child of God—the real man defined by Mrs. Eddy on pages 475–477 of Science and Health—who neither condemns nor is condemned. I am earnestly trying to apply this definition of man to myself, to my family, and to the world.

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