Testimony of Healing July 18, 1983 Issue

I have so many reasons to be grateful to God

ELDON J. APPLING

I have so many reasons to be grateful to God. I was led into Christian Science about twelve years ago, and the solace and confidence I have today, during these economically uncertain and threatening times, came as a result of a healing I had early on in my study of this Science. It was a healing of a most insidious fear of poverty.

Frankly, I did not know at the time that I had this intense fear. I just knew that I felt insecure and had a dread of being out of work and in debt. But the fear of poverty went beyond these obvious and common human concerns. I was harboring a morbid belief that I would not only lose all worldly possessions but would be rendered incapable of ever reobtaining them, and consequently would live in abject poverty the rest of my days. And that was the state of mind I found myself in after I had had a personal business failure and was unable to get another job.

I had been in this state for over a year when Christian Science was introduced to me. I immediately tried to demonstrate what I was learning through reading Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and on occasion I would enlist the services of a Christian Science practitioner. But these efforts seemed of little or no avail, to mortal sense. (Later it became clear that the loving support I received during that period buoyed my hope and greatly helped me stick to the course.)

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