In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 583) our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, defines Christ as "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error." The truth of this illuminating definition of Christ has been proved many times and in many ways in my experience. That Christ-consciousness which transcends all matter has been my guide in examinations during my school days, my success in the business world, my restoration to health in times of sickness, my comfort when faced with sorrow. Why I have been so tardy in expressing gratitude through our periodicals I do not know, for the proofs have been many.
The following testimony is submitted with the hope that it may help someone who is faced with the problem of making a decision. In the Christian Science Sentinel I read an article called "The Decisive Man." Although I had no particular decision to make at the time, I was led to read and reread this article, to study and ponder it. I was then engaged in running a very busy letter shop. My partner and I had started this shop seven years previously on a very small capital but with a wealth of qualities such as a keen desire to serve, enthusiasm, hopefulness, experience, ability, and an enduring faith in the success of a good venture. We had watched it grow and unfold until at last it was one of the busiest letter shops in the city in which I lived. The business to me was like a child, and had anyone ever told me that I would very humbly and willingly part with it I should have told him he was greatly mistaken, for I loved the work. And yet, two weeks after I had studied the above-mentioned article my partner startled me one morning when she came into the office and said, "Either you are going to buy me out or I'm going to buy you out, but I don't want to go along together any longer." I was called upon to prove what I had been studying in this article, and before noon the transaction was completed, and my former partner was the proprietor of the letter shop.
I knew that the whole transaction was a demonstration, for this occurred nearly three years ago, and never once have I looked back with either longing or regret. My decision was to loose it and let it go, and I never dreamed it would be so easy and so simple. I just looked forward to seeing what God had in store for me, realizing all the while that "each successive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine goodness and love" (Science and Health, p. 66). I had no idea what I was going to do, but I was willing to put myself in His care while I held firmly to the thoughts that came to me from ever-present Mind.
