I was not one who came to...

Grace Wenhold

I was not one who came to Christian Science with a sudden rush of understanding. I heard about it through an office colleague who knew that I was going through great tribulation just before the outbreak of World War II.

I did not come for a physical healing, but I was healed of constipation, from which I had suffered since childhood and which I had been told would persist and would entail constant medication. I had had this medication for many years. I was healed of the condition in three weeks, just through thinking of and accepting the words of the practitioner, who was prayerfully helping me.

Despite this lovely healing I was not yet ready to identify myself with the Christian Science movement. Later on, in 1943, I was led to join the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Once again I was invited to accept literature through the Christian Science Wartime Activities. I also was given loving hospitality by Christian Scientists wherever I was stationed.

Later on, during this service, I became a member of The Mother Church, and progress began. At this time my father passed on suddenly. I received a wonderful sense of the fatherhood and motherhood of God. Then just after I had been accepted as a member of a branch church, my mother passed on, and I was again sustained in all I had to do at that time.

In recent years I have been very grateful for Hymn No. 148 in the Christian Science Hymnal. It begins,

In heavenly Love abiding,
No change my heart shall fear.

During the time of the menopause, I turned to this hymn whenever I experienced discordant symptoms. I endeavored to understand the meaning of its words. Headaches were quickly healed, and I was able to continue my employment uninterruptedly.

When tempted to feel discouraged about things not yet overcome, I turn with gratitude to those healings which I have received, and I press onwards.

Sometime ago I was asked to take part in a musical show which was an office activity. I had not had a piano for many years, and at first I was reluctant to accept the invitation. But on thinking that a gift of God should be used, I went into rehearsal.

The first night, when I took my place at the piano, I was so terrified and overcome with fear that my hands felt as if they would not move. And for a moment I thought of these words of the Lord's Prayer (Matt. 6:13): "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever." And I remembered the correlative passage from the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 17), "For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All." This broke the mesmerism, and I continued and had a happy time. I now have a piano of my own and have served as deputy Sunday School organist.

For the purification of thought and for spiritual progress, I am grateful. I am thankful too for class instruction and the yearly association meeting, for lessons learned, for all activities provided through the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, and for our practitioners, who indeed help us to "stand porter at the door of thought" (Science and Health, p. 392).—(Miss) Grace Wenhold, Chessington, Surrey, England.

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