Testimony of Healing March 2, 1968 Issue

My mother's passing on when I was born left me with a feeling...

Celia T. Schroeder

My mother's passing on when I was born left me with a feeling of loss and self-pity for years. Fortunately I was brought up in Christian Science, which sustained me during my childhood until I could demonstrate it for myself.

One day in my early twenties I was going to the dentist with a painful toothache. This quotation from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy dawned on my thought (p. 369): "Man has not two lives, one to be destroyed and the other to be made indestructible." This is a portion of a sentence describing the healing method of Christ Jesus. It reads, "He understood man, whose Life is God, to be immortal, and knew that man has not two lives, one to be destroyed and the other to be made indestructible." It was like a great light filling my whole being. It dissolved the toothache completely and freed me from the craving to know and see my human mother. I was suddenly awake to the truth that Life was my creator, not my mother, and that I did not have to wait until I passed on to experience eternal Life. Gratitude and joy I had never imagined possible overflowed my consciousness.

Swift changes began to take place in my affairs. I was accepted to serve as an associate in one of the Christian Science Benevolent Associations. Within six months I had found a teacher of Christian Science and had the experience of rebirth through class instruction. During this time I realized I must not speak the truth until I had the courage to live it.

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