Testimony of Healing December 11, 1971 Issue

As a young wife I felt a deep need for a happier sense of my...

Sarah V. Cornelius

As a young wife I felt a deep need for a happier sense of my marriage. My husband's mother had been healed in Christian Science of what doctors had diagnosed as an incurable heart condition, and before our marriage he had tossed on a table the copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy his mother had given him, saying, "There must be something good in this."

Too self-centered at the time, I didn't read the book. But after our son was born, I began to feel the need for an understanding of God. Up to that period I had thought of God vaguely in the orthodox way of my early upbringing. I found the term "infinite good" for God in Science and Health was a help in lifting my thinking out of this mistaken view. And Mrs. Eddy's definition of God, with the seven synonyms, especially Love, began to take root (p. 465): "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."

Although my husband did not accept this teaching for himself during the first thirty years of our marriage, I have always been deeply grateful for his willingness to have our son raised in Christian Science.

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