Christian Science has been my...

Emily G. Moulton

Christian Science has been inspiration, comfort, wise counselor, and greatest blessing for many years. There were many physical healings in our large family. However, the unfoldment of spiritual truths destroying the materialism in human thought has always meant more to me than my own physical healings; and I rejoice that apparent afflictions and vicissitudes have only forced me to accept and use the great truths of Christian Science, lifting thought to a larger extent above material conditions and personal sense.

A form of hay fever was overcome when I resisted the temptation to throw out the bouquet of flowers which had seemed to bring me discomfort. Instead, I pondered the sentence in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which reads p. 508), "The only intelligence or substance of a thought, a seed, or a flower is God, the creator of it." I learned to love flowers right then, and ever since they have given me much pleasure.

At the close of the camp season one summer when I was serving as camp director, it seemed that one of my hip sockets had become injured in some way. Although I thought I was applying Christian Science in the months that followed, I saw, eventually, that my tendency was to declare the truth and then confer with material sense. I learned, too, that wondering and worrying about the condition got me exactly nowhere. A ready self diagnosis simply made the days run into weeks and prolonged the awakening. Then one day, eleven months after the injury, I was instantly healed!

The first part of that healing was the surprising thought that came to me one day before I picked up the Christian Science Quarterly to study the Lesson-Sermon. It was positive and emphatic: "Now is the time to see this thing as unreal!" This is a basic premise of Christian Science concerning all evil, and because it seemed to me a brand-new approach. I could not have been working from it before that moment. The second part of the healing was finding in the Responsive Reading in the Lesson-Sermon the following sentence: "Thou [O Lord] knowest my down sitting and mine uprising" (Ps. 139: 2), This struck me most forcibly, and then I saw beyond the simple physical activity, which in my case constituted a problem; I saw that Love must see its own creation as wholly good. In a moment of inspiration I rejoiced that God knows man as perfect, apart from all materiality, and in that moment I was healed. After months of laborious effort, how effortlessly the healing came!

Mrs. Eddy says on page 547 of Science and Health, "Inspired thought relinquishes a material, sensual, and mortal theory of the universe, and adopts the spiritual and immortal." This sentence has explained many of the healings that have come to me.

I am grateful for five years spent in serving in the Christian Science Benevolent Association Sanatorium in Chestnut Hill, the last three of which were spent in taking the nursing training course. For the growth which came to me as a result of this training and for the many wonderful lessons learned while applying my training in the Field and in a nursing home, I shall ever be humbly grateful to God. —(Miss) Emily G. Moulton, Selma. California.

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