Testimony of Healing November 17, 1980 Issue

An unruly crowd is stilled through claiming God's message of love and purity

CAROLINA EDWARDS

At present I am a singer-songwriter, but above and beyond my feeling for music, I have always been strongly impelled to find the meaning of life, and to do what I could to bring healing to the world's troubles. I attended a Christian Science Sunday School as a child, but I stopped going when I went away to boarding school. I continued, however, to search for life's meaning through various avenues: mysticism, transcendentalism, psychic mind control, drugs, astrology, and various psychological therapies. However, I continually measured the insight gained from these new pursuits against my dim understanding of Christian Science.

Then at a time when I felt that my life was particularly unbearable I was struck suddenly with a great appreciation for Mrs. Eddy. I recalled that she had suffered tremendous trials and that through her perseverance she had discovered the law of God, which Christ Jesus demonstrated in his healing ministry. I began to research her life and study her book Science and Health. As I explored, I knew the Christ, Truth, was leading me.

In the book of Revelation, John says (10:1,2): "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: and he had in his hand a little book open." I felt as if this angel with the rainbow upon his head had spoken to me when I came across the following sentence in Science and Health (p. 559): "This angel had in his hand 'a little book,' open for all to read and understand." And as I read through more of the chapter "The Apocalypse" in this book I was awestruck. I knew then with unshakable certainty that the Christ had come again to comfort and heal us through Christian Science and that immortal Truth could not be reached through any other avenue. I stopped pursuing the other systems and stopped using drugs.