For some time at my place of business so many demands were made upon me that I had insufficient time to do my own work properly, and consequently I seemed to be under constant nervous tension. There were days when I felt I should be at home, on account of poor health, but the work was of such a nature that it accumulated during my absence, and I preferred to be at my post. I was often discouraged, and the suggestion came that the only solution to this problem was to give up the work entirely, but this was impossible for financial reasons. The only way left for me was to pray. This verse from the Bible came to me: "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" I clung to this daily for months. The lighting of the office where I worked was inadequate, but the light I really wanted was spiritual understanding and divinely directed wisdom. I found that the definition of "salvation" in the Glossary of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 593) was, "Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed." I knew that since God was my salvation, or Life, Truth, and Love demonstrated, all was well. In a few months our firm moved to a different location. Here, to my surprise, I was relieved of various duties, without a word being said about it. The pressure and tension were removed, and this gave me the whole day for my own work, for which I was very grateful.
A short time later the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly for the week contained the Bible verse to which I had clung for months. I had studied the lesson each day, but on Friday when I came to the word "light," it stood out so large and clear that immediately I realized that I had made the demonstration of light in a human way. My office is now flooded with daylight, and I need no artificial light, as heretofore, except on dark days.
Shortly afterward I had the following experience. I kept records of many files numbering thousands of cards. One day a card was missing which was urgently needed and for which I was directly responsible. Upon being asked several times for it and being unable to locate it, I realized how futile it seemed from a human viewpoint to produce the card immediately. Then I commenced working in Christian Science. I knew that nothing could be lost in divine Mind. This paragraph in the Christian Science textbook came to me(p. 424): "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony." I reasoned that there is only one Mind. In this Mind everything is in its rightful place. I declared this several times with conviction, and then commenced my regular work. After about five minutes, I was impelled to rise, walk to a certain file, and pull out a card. This was the missing card. This proved to me with absolute certainty the "unerring direction" of divine Mind. My joy was unbounded for having been able to make this demonstration.
