Testimony of Healing November 19, 1966 Issue

I shall never cease to be grateful for class instruction, for the...

Margaret Withington

I shall never cease to be grateful for class instruction, for the annual association meeting, and for Mrs. Eddy's foresight in providing for these in the Manual of The Mother Church. Class instruction gave me a firm foundation and stabilized my progress Spiritward.

One of the first healings I had through my own efforts was that of fear of being alone, which was most aggressive at night. I was completely and permanently freed from this fear when I learned from the study of Christian Science that God is everywhere and fills all space. I then realized that I had been fearing products of my own imagination which had no real existence. I learned from this experience that fear of any kind is based on fake suggestions and when indulged in is a form of self-inflicted malpractice or mesmerism.

At another time, while living in a foreign country, my home, which I was renting privately, and all my belongings were completely destroyed by fire. My first thought in learning of the fire was one of gratitude that no one had been harmed. Also, my home was the only one destroyed, although others were only five feet away. I did not visit the scene that night, but I was reminded of the verses in Matthew (6:19, 20), "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal." These verses so uplifted me that I had no sense of loss. I clearly saw the importance of laying up "treasures in heaven," that our "treasures in heaven" are the ideas of Mind, and that these had not or could not be destroyed but are ever available to man.

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