Testimony of Healing February 20, 1960 Issue

The Comforter promised by...

Mary Graham Cooper

The Comforter promised by Christ Jesus came to me when I was in great need. At the time the words "Christian Science" meant little to me. Then I attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting in a Church of Christ, Scientist. The next day I felt like a different woman.

For months my thoughts kept dwelling on the words "Christian Science," and I knew I had found the great truth that would heal all my ills. Although I had been on the verge of a nervous breakdown, it did not occur, for the spiritualization of thought came so suddenly that it averted my fears and the belief of troubled nerves. I had learned for the first time that God is Mind and that God is my only real consciousness. Then I knew He must be what I was actually conscious of, and that I could be conscious only of good.

My first reading of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy brought great spiritual light, but I soon learned that if I was truly to partake of its great spiritual riches, I must study it. I realized I had so very much to overcome in my disposition, and the first desire I had was to learn how to express more love in my home and to my fellow men in general. A sense of self-centeredness had to be overcome. I learned, however, that there must "be first a willing mind" (II Cor. 8:12). I was actually hungering and thirsting for more and more of this wonderful truth about which I knew so little.

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