Testimony of Healing November 16, 1963 Issue

I am grateful Christian Science...

Charlotte B. Gerber

I am grateful Christian Science teaches the spiritual meaning of substance. I was brought up in a large family where frugality and thrift were major concerns. I thought the supply of the world was a limited thing. I recall how grateful I felt when I first realized through the teachings of Christian Science that abundance for one person does not mean lack for another, but that all may have wealth even as all may have health because wealth stands for a state of spiritual consciousness.

However, through the years I practiced wise economy, and as a result I was able to retire early from my profession. Shortly afterward I lost practically all my worldly accumulations through what the courts declared to be grand theft. Not only was this a heavy blow financially, but it was particularly saddening because the perpetrator was a man who, I thought, had been a dependable friend for twenty-five years, and because others, trusting my judgment, had gone to him and suffered loss also.

But I had begun giving all my time to Christian Science, and my confidence in the spiritual nature of supply was sufficient to carry me through difficult times. One day as I prayed about the problem the words came to my thought distinctly, "And God gave Job twice as much as he had before, when he began to pray for his friends." I found the correct quotation reads (Job 42:10), "And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before." The message was clear-cut and comforting, and I knew it was the promised answer from divine intelligence.

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