Testimony of Healing January 3, 1953 Issue

For twenty years I have been...

Grace Demms Guilbert

For twenty years I have been helped immeasurably by the testimonies in our periodicals. Since I have had a beautiful proof of the power of Truth, as we learn of it in Christian Science, I wish to tell of my experience, which may be of help to other singers.

About five-thirty one evening I was called on the telephone and was asked to sing the soprano solos in Handel's "Messiah," which was to be given that night at eight o'clock. The conductor of the chorus, who called me, said that his soprano had just sent word that she was unable to appear and that he felt I was the only one who could substitute for her at such short notice. I felt flattered, but informed him that it was not possible for me to accept, for I had not sung some of the numbers for fifteen years and had never attempted the role without at least three or four months' practice on them. Since he felt he could not take "No" for an answer, I said I would do the best I could. As I did not feel that I would be able to perform satisfactorily, however, I called a practitioner and asked for help, telling her what I was expected to do. I voiced the thought that I knew I would not be able to do it. Her instant reply was to the effect that it was not personal, and since all things are possible to divine Mind, all I needed to do was to get the personal sense of myself out of the way.

In the Bible we read (Matt. 19:26), "With God all things are possible;" and in Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says (p. 180), "When man is governed by God, the ever-present Mind who understands all things, man knows that with God all things are possible." These truths and the practitioner's work gave me the assurance that I needed, and I was able to place the responsibility in God's hands and go forward. I was forced to give up my belief about the necessity of time for practice and other restrictive convictions I had with regard to my performances.

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