Testimony of Healing April 9, 1977 Issue

Throughout the years I have found that the more I recognize my...

Jane Long Andrews

Throughout the years I have found that the more I recognize my individual world and everyone in it from the spiritual standpoint of the teachings of Christ Jesus and the Christ Science, the more healing has come into the atmosphere of my home, community, and office. It has been truly remarkable—the joy in our family life, the health, and the love. I attribute it all to this practical religion that completely upholds the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Christian Science requires high ethics. Abiding by its standard, my husband, children, and I have been protected. At times when worldly temptations or assaults would have diverted us from this straight and narrow pathway, our religion, as we utilized it, has quickly come to the rescue.

I once found myself involved in business agreements that threatened to leave my investments entirely insecure. Through the persistent prayerful help of a Christian Science practitioner, who clearly discerned the problems, I was able step by step to overcome each factor of complication or wrong with scientific truths in Science and Health and other writings of Mrs. Eddy. In her Miscellaneous Writings I read (p. 14): "What appears to mortals from their standpoint to be the necessity for evil, is proven by the law of opposites to be without necessity. Good is the primitive Principle of man; and evil, good's opposite, has no Principle, and is not, and cannot be, the derivative of good." And in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany Mrs. Eddy states (p. 181), "The specific quest of Christian Science is to settle all points beyond cavil, on the Biblical basis that God is All-in-all."