Testimony of Healing September 9, 1950 Issue

I wish to express gratitude for the...

Stacy Smith

I wish to express gratitude for the healing of a nervous breakdown. This healing was brought about a number of years ago through the teachings of Christian Science. It was not an instantaneous healing; in fact, my condition seemed to grow steadily worse over a period of three years. This trouble was accompanied by long periods of depression, discouragement, self-pity, self-condemnation, and despondency. So long as my thought was centered on self, I made no progress towards overcoming the difficulty. But when I finally succeeded in turning thought away from myself, away from what I believed to be my troubles, looking steadfastly to God until I grasped something of the fact that "the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him" (Deut. 4:35), my healing was rapid.

However, I did not gain this understanding until in my agony I began to realize something of what Isaiah had in mind when he said (2:22), "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?" and of what Paul meant when he said (Eph. 4:22-24), "Put off ... the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and ... put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."

An understanding of these passages of Scripture came to me one day when, as distinctly as if someone had spoken them to me, I heard these words from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 470): "Man is the expression of God's being." Well, I thought, there is nothing the matter with that expression. Why, God is expressing Himself; He is not waiting for me to do it. All there is, is God and His perfect manifestation.

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