It must be over twenty years since my first testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel, and it is high time for me to bear witness again to the healing power of Christian Science. I have had many wonderful physical healings during the past twenty years; but I want to write about a different kind of healing, as I know it will help many readers. This experience will always be one of my most inspiring and sacred memories.
Some years after I had been left a widow with several children, financial problems became a heavy weight. I was living in the Channel Islands when my husband passed on; and as it was much cheaper for me to remain where I was, I decided to do so for some years. I owned my house, but expenses, mostly due to large structural alterations, necessitated an overdraft at my hank; and this gradually became larger. I knew that in three years, when my younger son could enter public school, it would be advisable for me to return to England and live with my mother and sister, but it seemed essential that I should not leave until then. Unless I sold my house, however, I had no way to pay off the debt.
The problem being beyond my own power to solve, I turned in perfect faith and confidence to our heavenly Father, recalling Mrs. Eddy's words on page 135 of Science and Health: "'Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?' What cannot God do?" I was guided to put my house in the hands of an agent, and before long he came to see me and said: "I have had the most extraordinary offer for your house that I have ever met with in the course of my long experience. I do not know what you will say to it." Then he told me of a gentleman who was retiring from a long career in Egypt and who greatly desired to buy my house. Just before he expected to do so, however, he received a personal letter from the King of Egypt asking him to accept a three-year assignment to some very special work. The gentleman wanted my house so much that he wished to pay me at once, asking only that it be given to him in its present condition in exactly three years' time, for which period I need pay no rent. I was quite speechless from wonder and gratitude. In the words of a poet,
