Were I to attempt to catalog all the blessings and healings I have experienced through Christian Science, there would not be enough allotted space in any one periodical to contain my testimony. However, I would like to express gratitude for one healing not heretofore acknowledged publicly.

A few years ago some symptoms of a much publicized disease began to manifest themselves in my body. For about two years I prayed earnestly for a healing, and happily I was able to carry on all my church, home, and other activities. But the symptoms did not abate.

Then in the spring of 1963, I was elected Second Reader of our branch church. I accepted this new activity joyfully, but suddenly the physical condition became greatly aggravated and painful, and alarming symptoms appeared. I turned wholeheartedly to God and asked, "Where do we go now, Father?" Of course, the answer came to go forward! The question from Deuteronomy came to me (10:12): "What doth the Lord thy God require of thee?" Well, I knew my own answer to that. He required that I love Him, follow His guidance, obey His commandments, and be about His business.

Then one day when I was studying, my Science and Health opened at this statement of Mrs. Eddy's (p. 506): "The calm and exalted thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace." In pondering these words I saw two subtle ways in which I had been entertaining the belief of life and intelligence in matter, or animal magnetism. First, I was grateful that our two older children were grown and in happy homes of their own. Secondly, I was deeply concerned about my condition because our youngest child, who was about to enter junior high school, was still young enough to need his mother. In my prayers to attain the "calm and exalted thought," to which Mrs. Eddy refers, I released all the children from a sense of needing or not needing the physical presence of a human mother. I recognized that their "spiritual apprehension" could and must claim God as their Father-Mother and find their home in Him already and always complete.

I had always leaned heavily on Mrs. Eddy's definition of "Church" in Science and Health. This definition begins (p. 583): "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle." The words "whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle" have been especially meaningful to me. Now I knew that I must see myself too as resting upon this divine Principle, as having my origin in God. The platform of Christian Science as given in Science and Health (beginning on p. 330) was seen as the basis upon which I must most firmly fix my thinking and where I must stay, conscious of God's love and care. I cannot tell the exact moment when complete freedom came, but before I had been reading at our church services a month, all evidence of disease had vanished. It is now four years since this healing occurred, and the healing has remained complete.

I am grateful to God for Christ Jesus' beautiful example, for Mrs. Eddy's gracious demonstration, for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, for class instruction, and for that added gift, a husband who is a consecrated, conscientious Christian Scientist and whose strength and loving support have been generously shared through the years.

(Mrs.) Elizabeth M. Culling, Glendale, California

It is a privilege to confirm the completion of the healing of which my wife, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Culling, has written.

Throughout the years of our marriage many demonstrations of the healing power of Christian Science have been made through steadfast adherence to the truth of being, but at no time has consecration to the teaching of Mrs. Eddy been more beautifully rewarded than at the time of my wife's experience. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak out in regard to this beautiful healing.

Adelbert N. Culling