Testimony of Healing March 21, 1953 Issue

It is indeed a great pleasure to...

Jasmine Sawyer

It is indeed a great pleasure to have this opportunity to express a little of the gratitude I feel towards Mrs. Eddy for discovering and revealing to the world the truth of being. For many years I have been receiving such benefits from Christian Science that words are hard to find to express how deeply grateful I am to God. The study of Mrs. Eddy's writings, together with the biographies of her life, is giving me inexhaustible joy and inspiration; and the light received therefrom is enabling me to be obedient to the demands of the Bible. For instance, we can "pray without ceasing" (I Thess. 5:17) by knowing the truth in every situation; we can be obedient to the command, "Love thy neighbour as thyself" (Lev. 19:18), when we understand that there is only one Life, of which the real man is the perfect expression; and we can "wait on the Lord" (Ps. 27:14) by understanding the one Mind and surrendering all belief in another mind.

I have had many minor physical healings through Christian Science, but I am more grateful for the freedom I have gained from the miserable beliefs of mortal mind, such as disappointment, failure, lack, loss, apathy, and fears of many kinds. I should like to relate a very quick healing of travel sickness, which had troubled me for many years whenever I took a long journey by car. On a recent occasion a friend invited me to accompany her on a five-hundred-mile journey. I was about to decline with thanks when I suddenly realized that this was an opportunity to prove error's utter unreality, so I accepted the kind invitation.

However, in spite of my prayerful work before the journey commenced, the suggestion of sickness began to attack me when we had gone only a few miles. I prayed earnestly to God to show me what to do, for I was feeling too sick to think clearly. The answer came a short while later. When we alighted from the car for refreshment I was led to ask my friend, who was a sincere student of Christian Science, to help me with the difficulty. As we were sitting in the cafe this friend lovingly lifted my thought to the beauty and purpose of everything and then told me to rejoice with all my heart. I found myself rejoicing at all I looked upon, and I suddenly felt grateful for everything. A little later, when we were making our way back to the car, I realized that my suffering had disappeared. The rest of the long journey was taken in absolute freedom. It was clear to me that the cause of the sickness was ingratitude and fear. I am grateful for the valuable lesson that discordant conditions come about through fear of some kind and that gratitude is a wonderful antidote, since we cannot magnify good and evil simultaneously.

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