Testimony of Healing May 8, 1965 Issue

I wish to express gratitude for...

Mary Marjorie Garraway

I wish to express gratitude for our weekly Lesson-Sermons, provided in the Quarterly. Sometime ago my brother called to tell of some adverse circumstances that had befallen him. Shortly I found myself so apprehensive over his predicament that I knew that even if he did not wish help in Christian Science, I must at least uplift my own thought.

The lesson that week was entitled "Probation After Death," and, before studying it, I wondered how it could ever help in this particular situation. One of the first quotations from the Bible was (Prov 4:27), "Remove thy foot from evil." I then realized that I had been standing right in the midst of evil. I had been seeing my brother as a human being, surrounded by human circumstances. Instead, as a Christian Scientist, I must see his true selfhood as a divine idea— created by God, governed by God, and sustained by God.

Another truth I learned from the lesson was that Life is God and self-existent. I realized from this statement that good was inherent in my brother as God's child—that nothing could impede it, nothing could damage it, and nothing could destroy it.

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