Testimony of Healing January 10, 1953 Issue

That God's law of freedom can...

Valentina Gershgorin

That God's law of freedom can be made practical in human experience was proved to me while I was in Japan in 1941. I had been there for my summer vacation and had already prepared to return home when suddenly all roads were closed while the armed forces were being transported to Manchuria. I was desperate. I had to be home at a certain date, for at that time I was the head of a music school and had to make arrangements for examinations and to open the school. I tried to explain all this to the authorities, but to no avail. In our Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly for that week were references to passages from pages 225-227 in Science and Health, where Mrs. Eddy so wonderfully discusses the subject of liberation. I caught some gleams of the truths presented here and decided to go to Yokohama to see a Christian Science practitioner. We had a lovely talk, and I left her office reassured.

On entering the hotel after returning to Tokyo I felt quite uplifted to find a note sent to me from the Tourist Bureau. I immediately went there and was advised to obtain a special permit from the police. This I did, and to the great astonishment of my friends I appeared home just in time.

The end of World War II found me in Manchuria, China. From the very first I wanted to leave, but all departures were barred. The longer I remained the more hopeless my situation became. After some time I decided to rely entirely on Christian Science and to work out my problem in a scientific way. I remembered how the right understanding of liberty and freedom had solved a similar problem for me once before, and since the law of Truth is immutable, I knew this law could not fail me now.

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