Article May 4, 1918 Issue

"If any of you lack wisdom"

JAMES SCHEVENELL

The apostle James admonishes every one who is lacking in wisdom to ask of God, and he couples with the admonition one of the great promises of the Bible. He says: "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." Through the heeding of this admonition the promise was fulfilled in a healing experience which came to the writer some three and a half years ago.

In attempting to board a fast moving street, car, I fell backward, and the muscles of one leg were given a severe wrenching or straining. The car was stopped and I was enabled to get on, but in addition to the sense of severe pain, great confusion in thought was experienced. This amounted to a veritable storm within consciousness, but above the tumult could be heard the "Peace, be still" of Truth. It was this, together with the use of that great spiritual weapon which Christian Scientists find so effectual whenever error tries to assail them, namely, "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468), which enabled me to leave the car at the appointed place, walk several paces, climb a flight of stairs, and keep a business engagement which had previously been made.

The business call completed, I stepped out upon the street again, but the sense of injury became so great that it seemed as if I would be compelled to signal a passing conveyance and be carried to my room. In this condition I stopped on one of the busy corners in the heart of the business district (this was in one of our great metropolitan cities), and commenced to pray over the situation. It was the noon hour, when the sidewalk was crowded with people and the street with passing vehicles, but amid the surrounding confusion I stood and prayed earnestly, imploringly, and affirmatively, as we understand prayer in Christian Science. This lasted for several minutes, and then a sense of healing came, although it was incomplete, as subsequent events showed.

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