Among the joys it is possible to experience there is one of which we never grow weary—that of thanking God for all His goodness.
We are told on page 567 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy that "Truth and Love come nearer in the hour of woe." We had proof of this last summer when, while in the country, our little seven-year-old daughter fell on her shoulder causing her very keen suffering. I took the child in my arms, filling my own consciousness as best I could with the truth which came to my thought, and making her express her faith in the "gentle presence, peace and joy and power" of which our Leader speaks (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 389; Poems, p. 4). During part of the night my husband and I tried to realize that it is in God that man lives, moves, and has his being; and before dawn I felt a great peace steal over me, destroying all fear. The next day I could dress the child. She gradually recovered the use of her arms, and the suffering disappeared little by little. In order to prove the value of the benefit received we had the child X-rayed a few months ago. The plate showed that there had been a fracture of the clavicle, but that it had been perfectly set.
Divine law sustains man's spiritual being. This is why Mrs. Eddy could write (Science and Health, p. 427), "Man is the same after as before a bone is broken or the body guillotined." When we are obedient to divine statutes, we are governed directly by God.
