Testimony of Healing February 21, 1953 Issue

Christian Science has given me...

Violet Coughtrie

Christian Science has given me blessings so numerous that it would take too much space to relate them all. The following experience is one I am perhaps more grateful for than any other.

During the Second World War, I had the great privilege of reading in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Owing to war conditions, two testimony meetings were held on Wednesday. One Wednesday after the midday meeting, the subject of which was "Joy," I had official notice that my son had passed on in Germany, where he had been a prisoner of war; no further information was given.

It was imperative that the second testimony meeting be held and that joy be given out through the reading. I realized that I could not allow myself to look down into the sepulcher, but must look up to the living Christ, present with me. I turned to my Bible and opened it, praying for a message. The Bible opened at Ecclesiastes, and I read the following words (5:20): "He shall not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth him in the joy of his heart." I was filled with comfort and was able to conduct the meeting with joy in the attainment of my freedom from grief.

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