Testimony of Healing April 2, 1955 Issue

"Many, O Lord my God, are thy...

Emily C. McWilliams

"Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered" (Ps. 40:5). I shall always be grateful to the dear friend who introduced Christian Science to our family. My mother regularly took my sisters and me to Sunday School and early encouraged us to do our own praying and to trust in God as the source of all good. Since then my experience has been increasingly blessed. Protection and healing have been manifested when God has been acknowledged as our guardian and physician.

Of the many proofs I had of the Father's loving care during the years of my growing up, I am most grateful for the healing of what is called an inferiority complex, with all the discord that it incurs. Often I said with Paul (Rom. 7:19), "The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do." One evening I overheard two loved ones discussing in a constructive way my sorry actions. This was shocking and somewhat painful, but it aroused me to greater efforts for freedom. I was able to turn wholly to the one Mind, God, and I was led in humility to ask for help in overcoming frustration, self-pity, and remorse.

The Christian Scientist who lovingly helped me called my attention to Mary Baker Eddy's statement in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 477): "Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love. Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is individualized, but not in matter. Soul can never reflect anything inferior to Spirit." I felt at once the freedom which comes to anyone gaining an understanding of his true being as the child of God.

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