Christian Science
Testimony
ANIMOSITY
HEALED
As I
was rereading the New Testament, I came across this
beautiful verse in Matthew, "For if ye forgive men their
trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you," and
I thought with gratitude what the practice of that verse had
meant to me. Years ago I thought I had an enemy, and at that
time it was a great temptation to me to talk the person over
with my friends and expose the errors of his way. I was so
stirred and distressed that every time the thought of this
person came to me I turned away from the material sense of
man and struggled to behold the perfect man, as Mrs. Eddy
tells us on pages 476-477 of Science and Health, where she
says: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared
to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this
perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this
correct view of man healed the sick." It was a struggle. It
was the hardest thing I had ever tried to do. A voice seemed
to say: "If God is Love and All-in-all, why can't you prove
it? Why should you be tormented with hateful, suspicious
thoughts?"
After
months of persistent effort I found that the suspicious,
resentful thoughts had been replaced by charitable ones, and
I found that the person expressed much good which I had not
been able to see before. I was wonderfully happy. Besides
all this, a serious disease which sometime previously had
stubbornly resisted Christian Science treatment vanished
without my knowing when it disappeared.
Gladys
Hayward
San Jose, California
"Testimonies of
Healing"
The Christian Science Journal, January,
1921
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