What comforting words of truth are these!...

What comforting words of truth are these!

In our home we have had healings of growths supposed to be incurable, and business problems have been resolved satisfactorily. Another healing was of shingles. This seemed to be slow until the Christian Science practitioner who was helping me pointed out I needed to learn patience. The Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly was a great encouragement in the healing. On page 393 in the textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy says: "Mind is the master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority. Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action. Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good."The word "resist" stood out clearly. I declared the truth of Spirit's strength many times a day and felt uplifted, knowing the healing was taking place.

The section in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy (Art. XXX, Sect. 7 ), "Healing Better than Teaching," also inspired me to persevere. It says in part, "I recommend that each member of this Church shall strive to demonstrate by his or her practice, that Christian Science heals the sick quickly and wholly, thus proving this Science to be all that we claim for it."

When I first came into Christian Science, I never felt safe going any distance from home. This fear was overcome when I took a journey to Boston to The Mother Church after being housebound for ten years. Since this healing of fear I have flown to different countries, always declaring we were all flying in the presence of Love.

A year ago I broke my arm in a fall. The shoulder and arm were very painful to move. I recalled a Christian Science lecture that brought out the thought that an understanding of the allness of God, Spirit, destroys belief in matter. I pondered this every day for a week and knew that my true selfhood had never been touched by accident. With a sense of great joy came the healing. Christian Science is a wonderful healer and a great blessing.

It has always been a joy to read the Christian Science periodicals. We benefit from the healings given in the testimonies because they are sincere and tell of God's grace and blessing to each one. I am deeply and humbly grateful to God for Christ Jesus' example and for the rules of spiritual healing in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

(Mrs.) Hannah E. Jarvis
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

I wish to acknowledge my great gratitude for Christian Science, the law of God, as revealed to Mrs. Eddy, and given to us in the textbook, Science and Health.

Through the study of this Science in conjunction with the Bible, I have seen and received many beautiful healings. There have been instantaneous healings of mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, and croup by studying the ninety-first Psalm, and "the scientific statement of being" on page 468 of the textbook. The statement reads in part: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."

Once one of my two girls felt ill with flu. But in a short time she told me she was well. She had read of God's healing power in the Bible and had realized she didn't have to be sick.

On another occasion a granddaughter was suffering with pain in her side and feared she had appendicitis, for which two of her brothers had had surgery. She was healed through my explaining to her that God is Love and All, therefore fear cannot stand in His presence. We read in I John (4:18 ): "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear."

On our way to church the car door was banged on this same child's thumb, badly bruising it. By the time we arrived at church the thumb was completely normal again. This healing was brought about by holding to the truths from this sentence Mrs. Eddy gives us in Science and Health (p. 424 ): "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony."

Some years ago a daughter asked me to care for her home and four children for six weeks. But owing to a business problem, she and her husband were required to be away some months.

During this time their dog had five puppies. As no one else was available to help, the task of caring for them fell to me. This meant four feedings a day.

I found myself unable to move without feeling severe pain. I realized I was resentful at having so much to do. While trying to correct my thinking, I recalled a healing I had had of a recurring stiff neck. The healing came after a daughter asked a question that made me waken to a painful reaction on my part to a girl in the office whose actions did not please me. As I walked to the bus to go to the office, I thought about this. Then I corrected my thinking with the truth that this girl, too, was God's perfect child. And my healing came.

Recalling this experience produced a startling result. I was instantly perfectly free of the bodily pains and filled with gratitude.

For a happy marriage to a dedicated student of Christian Science, I am most grateful.

For Christ Jesus, the Master, for Mrs. Eddy, for membership in The Mother Church, for the privilege of membership and active work in branch churches, and for class instruction, I am humbly grateful to God.

(Mrs.) A. Lilian Chesney
Kirra, Queensland, Australia