“To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.” These are the first words I read from the textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy (Pref., p. vii). I read them when a friend let me stay at her house while she was away. These beautiful words gave me much joy, and as I read further, I felt I must own the book myself. This was during the so-called depression, and to obtain the means to buy the book seemed out of the question. By post I received, quite unexpectedly, a Christmas present which supplied my need. Three weeks later I noticed suddenly that I had not had any pains in my right hip joint, as I had had formerly, and that sever bilious attacks had ceased. One day I cut my index finger so deeply that I wondered whether or not the wound ought to be stitched. Then came the thought, No, for "Truth is always the victor" (ibid., p. 380). Meanwhile I managed to do all my own housework, often having my hand in water. In two weeks' time the finger was beautifully healed, and the scar is scarcely noticeable. I had much cause to be grateful to God and to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy.
One day I stepped on a piece of wood hidden in the long grass. A nail in the wood pierced my shoe and my foot. I pulled the nail out and gave myself a Christian Science treatment. The pain vanished. That afternoon when my husband came home, I told him about the experience. Two minutes later the pain returned. I saw then that I had acknowledged the error to be real, so I did my work again and was immediately healed. These healings seem marvelous to me, but greater far is the glorious understanding of the Scriptures and the realization of what it means to be satisfied. Also I am grateful for harmony in the home and for the changed disposition of one member of the family, brought about through my persistently knowing that he is in reality the child of God and that undesirable traits of character claiming to belong to him and also to me are unreal.
More and more comes to me the blessed understanding that God, our Father-Mother, saves us here and now. I have experienced the truth of this several times.
