Testimony of Healing May 28, 1949 Issue

Daily experience enriched by spiritual sense of joy

Ruth Stelzenmuller

More and more am I grateful for the privilege that has been mine in knowing no religion but Christian Science. It has been and is being a constant unfoldment to me as a religion that meets every human need.

I first knew it as a religion that helped in practical daily living in countless ways, such as overcoming fear of school and college examinations, recovering lost articles, and healing minor physical ailments. Later on a more serious physical trouble and a deep sense of indecision and unhappiness confronted me, and these also were overcome with the help of a practitioner. Unable to work, I spent hours of each day for several months rereading and studying the writings of our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and reading the Christian Science periodicals. Great growth followed this experience, and through it I found, as never before, that Christian Science is a religion of joy.

I am grateful for the trials that led me to seek and find a higher sense of joy than any material circumstance could possibly bring or take away. In our textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 265), "The pains of sense quickly inform us that the pleasures of sense are mortal and that joy is spiritual." I rejoice in a growing understanding of the completeness and stability of this spiritual joy and in learning of God as the only source of joy, the only source of good, and the source of good only. During this time Christian Science became to me infinitely more than an aid to my daily life. Among the priceless blessings unfolding to my consciousness was some comprehension of our Leader's words in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 19), "The spiritual sense of Life and its grand pursuits is of itself a bliss, health-giving and joy-inspiring."

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