"Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you," said Jesus. Five years ago, when I began the study of Christian Science, the significance of this admonition began to dawn upon my thought. At the time, my husband was in the United States service expecting overseas orders daily. When the orders came, a heavy sense of apprehension seemed to settle upon my thought. Quietly and earnestly we turned to the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, ''Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Presently, instead of fear, came a clear discernment of what Mrs. Eddy means when she says, "Divine Love alone governs man" (Church Manual, p. 40), — that, regardless of the terrorizing testimony of the physical senses, the only presence is the presence of Love. There came a realization of peace; for we knew momentarily, and prayed to hold to, the nothingness of distance, time, and the terrors of war. When my husband returned to camp that night, he found that his overseas orders had been rescinded; and although his place of service was changed several times, he was, during the entire period of the war, never out of our own state.
Three years ago, when a dear one passed on very suddenly, through the loving help of a Christian Science practitioner I was able to rise above the sense of shock and grief, and the illusions of material sense testimony, to find peace in the knowledge of God's spiritual household and of the Life divine.
When our little one was born, God was indeed in our midst. The physician, who was called in compliance with the state law, understood beforehand that we were Scientists, and that the attendant nurse was to be a Christian Science nurse. When there arose a condition which mortal mind painted very black, divine Love met the human need. The practitioner took up the work in Science immediately, and the error was destroyed almost instantaneously.
