I am truly very grateful for even a small understanding of the omnipresence and omnipotence of God. Physically I feel that I have been very greatly benefited. When medicine failed, I was healed of a claim of nervous prostration that had lasted for two years and had made it entirely impossible for me to do my work. I was also able to leave off the wearing of glasses and was cured of nervousness and an irritable disposition. I believe I feel even more grateful for the mental peace which even a small understanding of Science will bring.
Some time during the early part of the winter, an acquaintance of mine, unknowingly to herself, came into close contact with a case of smallpox. She had seen something of Christian Science, but was somewhat sceptical regarding it. The fear occasioned by this contact produced almost utter exhaustion, and she took to her bed. She had been an invalid for many years, and labored under great fear. She telephoned to a Scientist and received treatment. From that time on she was entirely free and completely forgot the fear of smallpox.
The thoughts which came to the Scientist at that time from the Bible were especially helpful: "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." "Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
