Testimony of Healing August 12, 1972 Issue

Christian Science is indeed the Comforter promised by Christ...

Neal Dusenbury

Christian Science is indeed the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus. One of my earliest experiences in Christian Science occurred while I was in college. Through unfortunate circumstances I had turned down a highly regarded national fraternity and had joined a fraternity that seemed to be very much lacking in a spirit of brotherhood and high standards. My hopes and plans seemed to have collapsed just when I was starting my college work.

My mother was interested in Christian Science, so she gave me a copy of the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I had such a longing for a sense of inner peace and comfort that I took the book back to school with me and read it daily, sometimes for hours at a time. I would take long walks by myself, pondering what I had read.

Soon I started to attend services in a Church of Christ, Scientist, a few blocks from the campus. The textbook was most comforting and inspiring, and I soon started to feel differently about my fraternity brothers. I became better adjusted and made real friends there. I continued to read the book daily, and the following fall when I returned to school, a marvelous change had taken place in the fraternity. A new spirit of brotherhood was much in evidence, and the new group of freshmen pledges joining the fraternity were a fine group of men, quite different from the group who had joined the fraternity with me a year earlier. My unhappiness and disappointment had disappeared, replaced by a marvelous sense of inner peace and happiness. No longer did I wish that I had joined another fraternity. I found the spirit of brotherhood and high standards right where I was.

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