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For many years I studied Christian Science...
For many years I studied Christian Science and was very active in church work. I had many healings, both physical and mental. However, there was a home problem which did not yield, and it caused much unhappiness and subsequently resulted in a severe illness. I felt as though I never wanted to rise from my bed again. One day my faithful Christian Science nurse asked me, "Has life become too difficult for you to stand up under it?" This aroused me, and the thought then came to me: "Why, I do not have to die out of this problem. God has a better plan." That was an awakening, and soon a change of environment which exceeded all my expectations revealed to me freedom and peace.
The physical difficulty did not yield at once, for I had lessons to learn. A practitioner helped me to see that I must give up the accumulation of false beliefs which, to me, had seemed to be a hard life and which were objectifying themselves in all the symptoms of what physicians classify as a tumor. I learned that the past experiences were but dreams and never had been any part of my real self as an idea in Mind, because they were not of God.
The time came when the practitioner and I felt that the work was done, but the physical manifestation persisted. Later I heard someone quote from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 231), "If God heals not the sick, they are not healed, for no lesser power equals the infinite All-power." This statement uncovered to me the subtle error that even though I had been a student of Christian Science for years, I was being tempted with suggestion that if this Science did not heal me, I still could resort to material means. This roused me, and I decided to place radical reliance on Truth regardless of the appearance of abnormality.
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February 25, 1950 issue
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OUR REAL HOME
EVA RUBERT
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WATCHING OUR THOUGHTS
ROY L. HARVEY
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CONSCIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND HABIT
MILDRED E. HYDE
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HAVE WE ENTERED A STRONG DISCLAIMER?
GODFREY SPERLING, JR.
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LIFE IS ETERNAL
CLAUDE WALLACE WOODRUFF
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LOVING THY NEIGHBOR
MILDRED TABER CLARK
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TOMMY BUILDS AN ARK
MARY E. IRWIN
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BARTIMAEUS
Kathrine H. Williams
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MY BROTHER'S KEEPER
George Channing
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THE PATRIARCHS AND THE CHRIST
Robert Ellis Key
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At the time of my introduction to...
George A. Neilson
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To all who may be wondering if...
Helen W. Krehbiel with contributions from Helen Killinen
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During the last eight years I...
Ernst Zbinden with contributions from Marta Zbinden, Trudy Hostettler
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For many years I studied Christian Science...
Ruth Matteson
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Having had both a mother and...
Helen Donahey
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Because our beloved Leader,...
Lois Marion Meredith
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My heart is filled with love and...
Mabel L. Callens Rodgers
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For many years Christian Science...
Isabel V. Reitz
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I praise and magnify the Lord...
Edith Lascelles Kirby
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Edwin A. Brown, Grant Madison