One Saturday morning I awoke with one side of my face very much swollen and suffering from a belief of incessant pain. I tried to handle the error by the constant declaration of Truth and the denial of error, but it seemed very stubborn, and at the end of about ten days the pain was almost unbearable, my face and throat were so swollen that I could not eat and could scarcely swallow, and I was in constant pain. One day at noon I told my husband to telegraph my condition to a healer in Chicago, and ask for help. The telegram was sent about one o'clock. Between half past three and four o'clock I found that I was perfectly free from pain. I was healed. Many, many times has Christian Science healed and helped me, but never before was the healing so instantaneous, and all I can say is, I was simply dumb in the presence of Divine Love. My thought went immediately to the first paragraph of what the Mother says of "Love" on page 250 of "Miscellaneous Writings."
I was glad of the belief of suffering that brought to me that moment of realization of the power of Love. Can we ever be grateful enough to our Mother who has given us the key to the understanding of what divine Love is? It is eighteen years since we first heard of Christian Science, and it has brought to us countless blessings. We knew it was the Truth from the first time we heard it spoken. The Journal, Sentinel, and Quarterly are eagerly looked for and read for they always bring us such "good tidings of great joy."— Sandusky, O.
