Through
the study of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy we are learning that harmonious experience is dependent upon spiritual perception, the perception which understands God as the only cause and creator, and good experience as the only experience.
Unmoved
by drouth or storm cloud,Resting in quietness,Waiting calm and receptiveFor the hand of God to dress,Be as a watered gardenIn a drear and desert place,Quickened by showers of SpiritAnd the sunlight of His grace.
More
than nineteen hundred years ago Christ Jesus went about his healing mission, teaching the truth of being, healing every receptive thought which came to him, and expressing a humility and love which blessed all.
Christian Science
teaches that man exists as the idea of God, the perfect compound idea of perfect Mind, and that he embodies all right ideas, including that of business.
One
of the most important things to understand in Christian Science is that we do not live in a nervous system, but that all means of communication belong to God and the tender relationship of man with the Christ constitutes our true being.
Do
not despair if what men call supplySeems low, but look to God alone, to God,The Giver of good! We should never tryTo find the riches of His grace save inThe realm of Mind.
My father used to take our family over thirty miles each Sunday to and from a Church of Christ, Scientist, enabling my younger brother and me to attend a Christian Science Sunday School, where we received great benefit from the clear and loving teaching given us.
For some time it has been my desire to write of an experience that may give others courage in the face of what appears to be defeat in a business venture.
It is with sincere gratitude to God for the many blessings that have come to me and to members of my family through the study and application of Christian Science, discovered by Mary Baker Eddy, that I submit this testimony.
It is with a heart full of gratitude and love that I submit this testimony of the blessings that have come to me and mine through the study and application of Christian Science.
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