My home life, based on the...

Minnie F. Moore

My home life, based on the teachings of Christian Science, has been exceptionally happy. I have had many healings. Faults of character have been corrected, and supply has been manifested. Mrs. Eddy's article entitled "Taking Offense," which appears in "Miscellaneous Writings," was a great help to me in overcoming extreme sensitiveness, and I am now becoming increasingly responsive to spiritual sense. I was blessed with a husband who was in sympathy with my religious views and helpful to me in my church activities.

Some years ago my daughter was involved in a serious boating accident in waters infested with hippopotamuses. She informed me afterwards that only what she had learned in the Christian Science Sunday School had kept her afloat during the long dark hours in the storm-tossed waves. She was a great help to the others involved, giving them encouragement.

After World War II, my husband and I had serious financial losses; but because we both knew that spiritual ideas come from God and are blessed by Him, our supply unfolded from unexpected sources, and we never at any time had to lower our standard of living.

When my husband passed on two years ago, I was greatly supported and comforted by a Christian Science practitioner and her husband. I felt all the time a great sense of the ever-presence of divine Love, with its sustaining and uplifting influence, and this was expressed to me in many ways.

Mortal sense tried to deprive me of the true sense of joy and happiness I had experienced through the years, but thanks to my understanding of Christian Science, I was lifted from the human sense of grief and sorrow. These words of our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, appear in Science and Health and were fully proved in my experience (p. 250): "Science reveals Life as not being at the mercy of death, nor will Science admit that happiness is ever the sport of circumstance."

My sense of joy is intact, and I have retained my consciousness of man's true selfhood and oneness with the Father as His idea, inseparable from Him. Great blessings unfolded, and I was able to visit the United States and to stay at the Sanatorium of the Christian Science Benevolent Association, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and to attend an Annual Meeting of The Mother Church.

Recently I had a serious fall; I cracked a rib and gashed my forehead. As I fell I declared that in reality I was unfallen, whole, and free. I telephoned to a practitioner, who helped me to realize the truth of this statement (ibid., p. 424): "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony."

A beautiful healing followed, and I am full of gratitude for this further proof of divine protection. I am always conscious that God, divine Principle, unceasingly takes constant, intelligent, and loving care of His ideas and that they live in Him.

I am grateful for an active life, for the privilege of having served as First Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and also in a Christian Science Society. I am thankful for Sunday School work, ushering, and service in various other capacities, for class instruction and the annual association meeting.—(Mrs.) Minnie F. Moore, Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa.

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