Through the application of Christian Science, I have had innumerable proofs of God's goodness. Among these proofs have been the successful completion of a graduate course of study in the field of education, opportunities to help children overcome difficult problems in schoolwork and behavior, the return of stolen possessions, and healings of physical discomforts; but what is most important is that a greater sense of inner peace has been found.
What Mrs. Eddy says about true education in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" has been very helpful not only in connection with my profession, but in my everyday activities. She writes (p. 252), "The entire purpose of true education is to make one not only know the truth but live it—to make one enjoy doing right, make one not work in the sunshine and run away in the storm, but work midst clouds of wrong, injustice, envy, hate; and wait on God, the strong deliverer, who will reward righteousness and punish iniquity."
Recently while on a farm-camp with thirty children, I was lighting a burner in a large gas stove when the flames flew out, catching my sweater on fire and burning my face. All this happened suddenly, and the only thought that came to me was this: No flame can touch God's child.
