Testimony of Healing March 12, 1955 Issue

I am grateful for the benefits that...

Florence L. Long

I am grateful for the benefits that have come to me through the study of Christian Science and for the blessings Science extends to all. The high standard Christian Science holds for its church members is also cause for gratitude. When I began the study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the habits of smoking and social drinking left me, and they have never returned. Before long I became a member of The Mother Church and a branch church.

I deem it a great privilege to have served over a period of four years as an associate in the Sanatorium of the Christian Science Benevolent Association in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and at the Pleasant View Home, Concord, New Hampshire, as a nurse. During these years I was always able to be at my post and was never absent because of illness. I greatly appreciate Mrs. Eddy's words (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 116), "Never absent from your post, never off guard, never ill-humored, never unready to work for God,—is obedience; being 'faithful over a few things.'"

At one time I had a severe case of ivy poisoning. Through the clear understanding of a Christian Science friend I was lifted out of a sense of fear, and the healing followed rapidly. At another time I felt especially fatigued at the end of the day. As I walked to my room I said to myself: "Only mortal mind, evil, is weary. The image of God cannot be." Then suddenly I experienced a feeling as if a garment had been dropped from me, and the sense of being tired vanished. I have grown stronger ever since that time.

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