Testimony of Healing May 8, 1954 Issue

I have been raised in the sound...

Robert Dennison Wright

I have been raised in the sound environment of Christian Science, for which my appreciation continues to grow. Much benefit has been realized from my instruction in the Sunday School and from the firm groundwork of regular study and application of the truths of Christian Science that were taught me at home. I am particularly thankful for the daily prayerful work that was done in our home. It kept us more ready to overcome the threats of discord. We were well protected from many inharmonies that mortal belief expects children to have.

I used my own understanding of Christian Science more when I was away from home attending college, and I found increasing confidence in God's power as I saw it continue to work in my experience. I was early led to challenge the belief that time, a mortal measurement, can limit man, who dwells with his creator in eternity. This statement from page 468 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy became more meaningful to me: "Eternity, not time, express the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity. One ceases in proportion as the other is recognized." This resulted in my having plenty of time to take a full study load, enter into several extracurricular activities, including very rewarding work in the Christian Science Organization at my university, and graduate ahead of schedule with honors. I was happy to find myself free in large measure from pressure of time or schedules during these years.

During the first weeks after I was drafted into military service I became more alert to the fact that I was actually in God's service. I saw that as His representative I must always have limitless good and useful work to do, even when mortal mind argues otherwise. This concept has borne fruit in pleasant work and increasing harmony within my unit, active participation in The Christian Science Monitor Youth Forum, and an opportunity for more study of our periodicals and other authorized Christian Science literature. This studying, I have found, can be done even in the midst of the mortal activity of a barracks, which would sometimes parade as confusion.

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