I have gained so much help and...

Margaret Statler Spear

I have gained so much help and inspiration from the printed testimonies of healing in The Christian Science Journal and the Sentinel that I with to add mine.

I am grateful for several years of study in a Christian Science Sunday School. There I learned the fundamental law that God, divine Love, is All. In those early years my gratitude was usually expressed for the protection I received through daily study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly so that the problems of youth which seemed to beset other girls of my age did not attach themselves to me.

In the early nineteen-thirties, however, at the time the so-called depression, I found it necessary to seek a new position because the company I was with merged with a larger firm and the employees were discharged. As I was the support of my mother and myself, the immediate need for another position loomed acutely before me. I remember I found it difficult to know how to work metaphysically to destroy the belief of lack, but Truth unfolded the understanding that divine Love is constant, is permanent, and persists in maintaining its idea, man, at the standpoint of completeness; therefore the spiritual qualities I expressed were now and forever available. In this way it was seen that man is always in his right place, and fear and discouragement were overcome.

In addition to thinking correctly about position and my rightful place, I took every human footstep possible to obtain work. As a result of a better understanding of man as the ever-active idea of God, I found new work, which through the years has developed into a happy and rewarding experience. The financial problem with which I was at first faced disappeared, since the new work was entered into long before my original employer's severance pay had run out.

During the recent war my husband enlisted in the Army and was away from home three years. Never before had I been alone, and the separation threatened to be a sad experience. I shortly saw, through the realization of God's ever-presence, that I was never alone, but always surrounded by divine Love, and that loneliness is entirely mental, a product of mortal thinking, therefore erroneous and predicated upon self-pity. All sense of separation disappeared as I endeavored to reflect ever-present Love by doing for others. I proved that there are no vacuums in Love, God.

My husband came safely through the war, and his life was wonderfully protected when he was wounded while serving with invasion forces in the Aleutian Islands. We were both protected during a motor accident which demolished our car. My husband said I instantly and declared, "God is my Life."

Healings through Christian Science of neuritis, lumbago, laryngitis, and indigestion have been experienced by me. There have been many other indispositions and false beliefs whose names I do not know, but which have yielded to treatment in Christian Science. God, to whom all things are possible, has made man perfect and healthy, and be the belief of sickness or disease or small, it is still only an erroneous suggestion which we do not have to accept. The Bible verse from Colosians (3:3), "Your life is hid with Christ in God," affords me a great sense of security as I take up my daily duties.

When with my whole heart I have studied the Bible and our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and other writings of our dearly beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, I have been healed. Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her revelation.

I feel deep gratitude to the Christian Science practitioners who have helped me with these demonstrations. Their consecration to the healing of mankind is the most noble work being carried on in the world today. I am grateful for the devoted work of the Christian Science nurses, for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church. Only by demonstrating the Christ can adequate thanks be given to God for His infinite goodness.—(Mrs.) Margaret Statler Spear, New York, New York.

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