On his last journey back to Jerusalem, Paul visited the city of Troas, and on the first day of the week, we read in the Acts of the Apostles (20:6-12), he preached in an upper room "even till break of day." In the midst of this discourse a young man named Eutychus, whose presence in that upper room might indicate that he was a searcher for Christianity, fell from the window and was taken up dead. Then the spiritual condition of Paul's thought immediately shone forth in deeds, for he went to where the young man was and restored him to a normal state of well-being.
Mary Baker Eddy tells us in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 159), "The infinite will not be buried in the finite; the true thought escapes from the inward to the outward, and this is the only right activity, that whereby we reach our higher nature." The true thought of Life and Love had become so rooted and grounded in Paul's thinking that it escaped to the outward not only in his preaching but in his restoring of Eutychus to health and soundness.
Christian Scientists learn that all true thought originates in God, divine Mind. They also learn that to the extent that spiritual thoughts are accepted and established in consciousness they escape into daily experience, destroying sin, healing sickness, and revealing man's eternal and unbroken sense of life in God. The Psalmist sang (Ps. 139:17,18): "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee."
