When "roughing it" on a motor trip, several hundred miles from home, I was suddenly taken ill with an acute attack of dysentery. We were in a place where there were none of the ordinary comforts or conveniences, and I was the only one who knew how to drive the car. Had I not proved many times before the truth of Mrs. Eddy's statement on page 134 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "There is divine authority for believing in the superiority of spiritual power over material resistance," I should have been very much frightened at the claims of matter. But without fear, and with a "clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious—as Life eternally is—can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not" (ibid., p. 495), I drove until we came to a little town where we could purchase a copy of The Christian Science Journal. We quickly turned to the list of practitioners along the route we were to take home. These names stood out to me as do lighthouses to storm-tossed mariners.
I can never express the gratitude I felt for the help received from two earnest workers who, answering my telephone calls, proved again our Leader's statement on page 179 of Science and Health: "Science can heal the sick, who are absent from their healers, as well as those present, since space is no obstacle to Mind." Neither the symptoms that persisted for several days, nor the inability to take solid food, caused me the slightest sense of weakness. I was able to drive my car home without any unusual fatigue or discomfort, and was perfectly well when I drove into my own garage.
I send this testimony out of gratitude for all the literature that Mrs. Eddy in her wisdom has provided for us.— Oak Park, Illinois.
