In gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me during many years, I am happy to submit this testimony in the hope that it will be of help to others. When I first started to study Christian Science I was suffering from tonsillitis and pernicious anemia, both of which were healed after I read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
Three days after taking up this study I had a severe attack of influenza while visiting relatives in a distant city. Being desirous of applying the teachings of Christian Science rather than resorting to any material remedy, I endeavored to avoid making reference as to how I felt. While I was wondering how to apply the truth, it came to me that I should repeat the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, given on pages 16 and 17 of the textbook. Though I had read this only twice before, every word came clearly to my thought. By the time I had recited it several times and realized its true significance, I found myself completely healed.
Just prior to the Second World War, I made a trip to England. My return voyage was arranged at the time of my departure, and I was booked to sail on a specified date. While I was in England, however, rumors of war became numerous, and radio bulletins advised those who were not residents of the country to make immediate arrangements to leave. I learned, however, that the ship on which I had originally been scheduled to return home had been assigned to troop service.
I went to London and waited in a queue for three hours, hoping to procure a booking. At the end of that time, during which my thoughts dwelt upon the divine facts of being as they are revealed through the inspired writings of Mrs. Eddy, a clear realization of the omnipotent government of divine Love flooded my consciousness, and I felt assured that all my needs would be adequately met. On approaching the booking clerk, I was offered passage on one of the smaller ocean liners, but I felt a definite leading not to accept this assignment, and I said, "I would like to wait for a larger boat."
This statement evoked from him the remark: "Madam, do you know what you are saying? If war commences, the government will confiscate all vessels and you will not be able to obtain passage at all." Knowing through my study of Christian Science that in truth there is only one government, the government of divine Love, I felt only the comforting glow of spiritual inspiration pouring into my consciousness. I left my address with the clerk and asked him to get in touch with me when he was able to offer another passage. Then I went on my way rejoicing, confident that the government of omnipotent Love was directing all of my affairs.
On the day that war was declared it was reported that the ship on which I had been offered passage had been torpedoed. The day before the sailing date that had been originally assigned to me, I received a telegram informing me of available accommodation on a ship leaving the next day, and I accepted this assignment.
Because of strict censorship I could not inform my husband of my coming, and therefore I had to rely entirely upon divine Mind to guide him, since he had previously arranged to make a five-hundred-mile trip from our home to meet me in New York on my return. He had already wired me of his confidence in God to guide and protect me throughout this entire experience and of his assurance that his own movements were also under the unerring direction of divine Love. He left home knowing that as Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health (p. 427), "Nothing can interfere with the harmony of being nor end the existence of man in Science." He was in New York to receive me on the day when I was originally scheduled to arrive, and on this very same day I debarked from a ship he had not expected.
This demonstration of God's care, as well as many others, has been a constant source of inspiration to me, and I am grateful that these experiences have drawn me closer to God and to a greater appreciation of man's true identity as God's reflection.—Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
