Nearly thirty years ago I became interested in Christian Science, and since then I have had many proofs of the healing and regenerative power of divine Love, and every day I become more and more grateful for the many blessings I have received through the study of this Science. I expressed gratitude some years ago through the Christian Science Sentinel for healings I had received. Now, when there is so much fear in the world, I feel I should like to tell how I was healed of fear when I first took up the study of this great truth. I hope it may help someone.
From the time I was a child I had always been fearful, fearful of almost everything and everybody, and life seemed to hold little joy for me. In Job we read (3:25), "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me." I found this true in my case; but one by one these fears began to drop away as I acknowledged the truths expressed by Mrs. Eddy on page 331 of Science and Health and realized that God does fill all space. I felt that there could be no cause for fear where all space is filled with God, from whose care and love I could never be separated. I proved this to be true amongst my first experiences in Christian Science.
One day I started to walk to a country village just outside my town. It was a lovely spring day, and I decided to take a short cut across some fields. I walked along enjoying the sunshine, the songs of the birds, and the stillness of the country, until I came to a thicket which I had to pass through to get to a lane on the other side of the field. As I entered this thicket a great fear came over me, and I felt that someone was lurking about and watching me. I stood still, wondering if I should go back or go on. It was then I remembered that the lane I was to enter had not been considered safe for anyone walking alone, and that, just the week before, a young man had been knocked off his bicycle there and injured and robbed. I stood for a few moments trembling, and then the angels of God's presence came to me, reminding me of the all-presence of God; and I felt that since He fills all space, there can be no place where He is not, and where He is, there is nothing to fear. So I went on across the field, realizing God's presence, until I came to the entrance to the lane. There in front of me I saw a man's bicycle standing by the hedge. I could see no one about, but all fear had been overcome, and I had a wonderful sense of protection and felt I was so securely sheltered from all error that no harm could possibly come to me.
