Throughout the years I have found that the more I recognize my...

Jane Long Andrews

Throughout the years I have found that the more I recognize my individual world and everyone in it from the spiritual standpoint of the teachings of Christ Jesus and the Christ Science, the more healing has come into the atmosphere of my home, community, and office. It has been truly remarkable—the joy in our family life, the health, and the love. I attribute it all to this practical religion that completely upholds the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Christian Science requires high ethics. Abiding by its standard, my husband, children, and I have been protected. At times when worldly temptations or assaults would have diverted us from this straight and narrow pathway, our religion, as we utilized it, has quickly come to the rescue.

I once found myself involved in business agreements that threatened to leave my investments entirely insecure. Through the persistent prayerful help of a Christian Science practitioner, who clearly discerned the problems, I was able step by step to overcome each factor of complication or wrong with scientific truths in Science and Health and other writings of Mrs. Eddy. In her Miscellaneous Writings I read (p. 14): "What appears to mortals from their standpoint to be the necessity for evil, is proven by the law of opposites to be without necessity. Good is the primitive Principle of man; and evil, good's opposite, has no Principle, and is not, and cannot be, the derivative of good." And in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany Mrs. Eddy states (p. 181), "The specific quest of Christian Science is to settle all points beyond cavil, on the Biblical basis that God is All-in-all."

Further, I am grateful for the healing, growth, and freedom Christian Science treatment has given our granddaughter, whose health was thought to be fragile.

Though physical difficulties have been rare, due to the protection Christian Science affords, the infrequent illnesses healed in our family of four, throughout the years, are: severe burns without scar, colds, flu, inadequate vision, acute headaches, warts, oak poisoning, broken bones, earaches, and effects of accidents of varying degrees of seriousness.

At one time during severe pressures, I awakened one morning to find one side of my face without feeling and paralyzed. Since Christian Scientists do not seek diagnoses, I do not know what the medical term would have been. Whatever it was, with the help of a practitioner, within a month or so I could feel the healing taking place, and quickly. There was a complete restoration. Even the eye on that side was restored to perfect vision, which it had not had before.

In my family a complicated estate was left, and my brother was executor, with my sister and me bearing a responsibility. There has never been a disagreement in the settling of family business affairs, because each of us feels the Christian love and integrity of early training still the prevailing influence in our lives. This has made us even closer family friends.

God has been our family's only physician all these years, and we are deeply grateful to Christian Science for illuminating to us God's healing laws.

(Mrs.) Jane Long Andrews
Menlo Park, California

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