Testimony of Healing April 6, 1981 Issue

As an adolescent I felt positive of God's presence, but I was uncertain...

ALETA D. ARGABRITE

As an adolescent I felt positive of God's presence, but I was uncertain as to the nature of His power. My mother and I were interested in spiritualism, and we had attended some séances. I was convinced that what I saw and heard at these sessions was indeed real. Then I spent two years in a private school where reading the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly was part of the daily morning routine; we pupils also attended a Christian Science Sunday School.

I was doubtful that I could ever accept a religion that seemed as "radical" as Christian Science. But one day I found myself listening to an explanation of spiritualism that was very logical. It became obvious that Mother and I had seen and heard at the séances only what we had wanted to see and hear. In the chapter "Christian Science versus Spiritualism" Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 80): "It is mortal mind which convulses its substratum, matter. These movements arise from the volition of human belief, but they are neither scientific nor rational. Mortal mind produces table-tipping as certainly as table-setting, and believes that this wonder emanates from spirits and electricity." And earlier she states (p. 71): "When the Science of Mind is understood, spiritualism will be found mainly erroneous, having no scientific basis nor origin, no proof nor power outside of human testimony."

Soon I found many other explanations and clarifications for my questions about God and man. And thus the leaven of Truth did its work. My belief in mysticism was replaced by a budding understanding of the Science of being.

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