As a new student of Christian Science, and young in years, I became ill in a restaurant while alone, visiting a large city. By referring to a copy of the Journal which I had in my bag, I found the office of a Christian Science teacher. Compassionately he began treatment through prayer, and within twenty minutes I left not only completely healed, but absolutely radiant.
Returning home I felt I must share this healing at a Wednesday evening testimony meeting in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Public speaking had hitherto been utterly impossible for me. The prompting to relate my healing was so insistent that I arose and was amazed that not only the words came intelligibly, but also volume and breath came easily, and nervousness did not confound me. Later, I was able to travel quite widely doing lecturing work. I count the overcoming of inability to speak in public one of the greatest triumphs in my experience as a Christian Scientist.
Two days after we had discharged domestic help because of an immoral situation which had come to our notice, I awoke to find myself covered with a deep scarlet rash. I was due at my office that afternoon, and I am so grateful that neither my husband nor I doubted that I could be there, healed through Christian Science.
When I turned to God for healing, the illness was revealed to me as a claim of moral contamination, the attempted invasion of my thought by the sensual concept of man. I then studied the ninety-first Psalm, especially those verses dealing with "plague" and "pestilence." I denied that there existed anywhere in God's universe a mentality that could disturb my spiritually endowed consciousness or had indeed done so; and I affirmed that I moved now and always had moved only in the purity of Soul's atmosphere.
By eleven o'clock the heaviest rash had gone. By two o'clock I was in the city, with no evidence of the condition.
During a drought, my husband and I had traveled nine hundred and fourteen hundred miles respectively from our home, which stands isolated in gum forest country. When at my ultimate destination, my husband telephoned one night, saying that friends left in our home had telegraphed that they had had to evacuate our house on forestry orders, since it was endangered by bush fire. He had telephoned to an adjoining valley to learn that the fire had already traveled five miles, driven by a relentless wind which had raged for two days, and that it was then out of control near our own heavily timbered valley.
I knew with absolute conviction that God was supreme in this situation, and we agreed to seek help in Christian Science. Stoutly resisting the most taunting of the mental pictures that assailed me, I held to the indestructible and inviolate nature of spiritual substance as taught in Christian Science; and shortly, with a clear realization that divine Love alone was operating, I was able to go to sleep.
Later I awoke with the words, "And the bush was not burned," ringing in my ears, but it was not in the sense of Moses' bush (see Ex. 3:1-3). One line in the second verse reads, "And he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed." I felt a clear conviction that the fire had been stopped. This was confirmed the next day. The wind had dropped within twenty minutes of our seeking help in Christian Science. There had been no further destruction.
My greatest joy lies in the realization that Mrs. Eddy, in comprehending the nature and basis of Christ Jesus' spiritual understanding, has brought to mankind a higher concept of the actual substance of Truth. For this, my gratitude has no words.— Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
