Testimony of Healing May 28, 1949 Issue

Persecution stopped. Student advances

Arthur Wilkins

The daily reading of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly has provided me with spiritual uplift, guidance, and counsel. The importance of reading the Lesson at the start of each day did not become apparent to me until about the end of the first year in which I began the study of Christian Science, at which time I was saved from making a serious business blunder by reading the Lesson-Sermon of that week.

I had been struggling for some time with a condition of inharmony with my immediate superior in the office where I then worked. All efforts to correct the condition were of no avail, and on a certain Monday the sense of persecution became so great that I left the office determined to resign the following day after delivering some caustic comments. When I reached home, I found my wife was out, and I walked about in great agitation and unrest. But there came to me insistently the thought, "Read the Lesson." Reading the Lesson always had imparted a sense of peace; so I obeyed the command.

Some of the citations were from Esther, and they dealt with the plot of Haman from its inception to its denouement. The citations from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy likewise contained matter pertinent to the situation. When I finished the Lesson, I seemed to hear these words distinctly and audibly: "Do you understand? You are not the one who must leave." I answered, "Thank You," and immediately the entire load of worry, anger, and frustration was lifted from me and I was at peace. By the time my wife had come home I had completely forgotten the decision to resign and the incidents leading to it.

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