When I was on a short visit to the United States of America in 1938, a reluctant visit was made to Mrs. Eddy's home. Whilst I was there prejudice was removed and was replaced by deep appreciation and love.
During air raids over Kent and London I realized that one caught a bomb as one did a cold—that both are mental falsities and involved in the belief that man is mortal—and that since man is the manifestation of Spirit, no evil can come nigh his consciousness. Great protection and peace were experienced.
The healing of a vast number of diseases has been witnessed, including cancer, insanity, heart trouble, and also broken bones. Of the healings in my own experience, the following stand out most clearly. I have overcome faults of character, faults with which I struggled valiantly in the past, believing that they were part and parcel of my make-up. However, as the understanding of the spotless purity of man's cause, or Principle, dawns, one is progressively enabled to disassociate one's real being from the dream of mortal living.
Whilst distributing Christian Science literature to the soldiers on the balloon sites, I fell, twisting my leg under me. During the following week it was possible to get about, but only with great discomfort. A friend seeing the condition remarked, "It looks like a torn ligament." I immediately affirmed that the real man was never under medical laws of any sort, with the result that within a few hours walking had become quite painless.
Towards the end of 1945, it became clear that a change of residence was necessary. Whilst I was pondering Mrs. Eddy's words (Unity of Good, p. 61), "Coming and going belong to mortal consciousness," and (p. 11), "Jesus required neither cycles of time nor thought in order to mature fitness for perfection and its possibilities," the word "America" came clearly to me, so clearly that there could be no doubt but that that was the answer. Suggestions of not being able to undergo the necessary formalities and to part with family treasures and old memories had to be dismissed ruthlessly. The problem of transportation seemed the most difficult to solve. One day was spent in London, during which the facts that everything concerning God is absolute, affirmative, and ever present, and that what is true about God is equally true about His manifestation were held to, although the hammering of error's suggestions seemed to be almost overpowering. Just eleven days after I made this visit to London I arrived in America.
Since then the study of the spiritual sense of home given in our textbook, Science and Health, and the other writings by Mary Baker Eddy has revealed the fact that home is a divine idea, of which Church is the more universal manifestation. The result of this realization is that the right church home has been found and also an apartment containing necessary equipment.
My debt of gratitude to God for Christian Science can only be paid as it is lived and every thought is brought "into captivity . . . to the obedience of Christ" (II Cor. 10:5).— Washington, District of Columbia.
