Christ Jesus' promise of a...

Gertrude E. Wolfinger

Christ Jesus' promise of a more abundant life (see John 10:10) has certainly been fulfilled in my experience through the understanding of spiritual being. Christian Science is the way of Life, which leads out of the poverty of material sense into the abundance of spiritual good, and this good is available to all. As one recognizes his true selfhood as the expression of God, fear is removed and security experienced.

I am grateful for Christ Jesus, for Mrs. Eddy's love for God and man, which established the Christian Science movement, for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, for class instruction, and for the privilege of having served as First Reader in a branch church.

Christian Science was brought to me through the loving effort of one who had been healed through it of blindness. At the time, I was in need of physical healing—I was in a sanatorium for tuberculosis—but I did not at once accept the precious gift. However, the seed sown bore its fruit sometime later, and the way out of error into Truth was begun. Mrs. Eddy tells us in the textbook, Science and Health (p. 162), "The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind."

Previously I had searched the Bible for hope and assurance, and these words were a comfort (Matt. 7:7): "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Christian Science came as a result of my search and in fulfillment of God's promise. The angel's words to Daniel might have been spoken to me (Dan. 10:12): "Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words."

Fears were set aside; and as an understanding of man's oneness, or unity, with God began to dawn on my thought I was healed. My life was transformed.

Because of ill health I had never been employed, but I had received a business training some years before. At a time when employment was considered difficult to secure—particularly for someone without experience—I was guided, through study of Christian Science, to a satisfying position where my efforts were recognized and appreciated. My employer told me later that he had chosen me, although the employment agency had recommended another girl who had also been sent on the interview.

I pray that I may bear witness to the truth and that I may return in some measure the good that has come to me through Christian Science.—(Mrs.) Gertrude E. Wolfinger, Moorestown, New Jersey.

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