I was born into a Christian Science...

Lilian Demel Henderson

I was born into a Christian Science family, and I took our religion for granted in my early life. My mother was a class-taught student, and she did most of the prayerful work for me until I went to the eastern part of the United States to work.

At this time I become ill with influenza, and a bronchial condition resulted. In obedience to employment requirements, I reported to a physician and was told that I could not live six months. Then I earnestly began to apply what I knew of Christian Science. Not only did I continue to work everyday, I had fully recovered in two weeks.

More recently a bill was presented to me for the repair of a building. Although I felt the bill was exorbitant, I knew the contractor, who was a Christian Scientist and a good friend of mine, to be completely honest. But I was told by neighbors that his men had deliberately wasted time on the job. Resentment and irritation crept into my thought and eventually colored my relationships with others. I was confused and miserable.

In talking with a practitioner, I suddenly became conscious that I had been entertaining a false concept of man, and I at once corrected my erroneous thinking. The next day the contractor came to tell me of bookkeeping errors that had been made in my bill. This discovery materially lowered the cost.

I am so very grateful for this uncovering of the error and for the healing of the sense of injustice and loss. Whenever we have the courage and the honesty to reject what is wrong in our thinking and replace it with the expression of divine Truth and Love, we are freed from the distressing circumstances that suggest themselves as power.

I am daily more grateful for the truth that is Christian Science, for our wonderful periodicals, and for the work of our practitioners.—(Mrs.) Lilian Demel Henderson, Grand Island, Nebraska.

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