Testimony of Healing June 7, 1913 Issue

Some time ago an article appeared in the Sentinel which...

Irene Walsh Nasmith

Some time ago an article appeared in the Sentinel which impressed me very deeply. One sentence from it has often recurred to me: "No matter what your problem may be, meet it with love." I could not at the time see how one could meet every problem with love, but an incident of recent occurrence served to make it clearer to me.

My baby girl had been troubled for months with what seemed to be stubborn inaction of the bowels; frequently five and six days passed without a movement, yet throughout this trying time there was not once an indication of fever. This alone should have put my fears to rest, and shown me clearly that my child was governed by divine law, material law, so called, having been proved powerless. But though the proofs of God's care and protection were daily brought home to me, I grieve to say that it was a long time before I mentally gave my child into the care of the all-loving divine Mind; in fact, it was not until I met that great Love with love in response, with love and trust, realizing that God did not need my anxious care to help in keeping His little one harmonious. When finally I came to that point where I could in thought free the child from my fears and fancies, loose her, and let her go, she responded quickly and beautifully, manifesting in a very short time the harmonious action of spiritual law.

I learned much during this time, and now, when any thought of inharmony comes, the question presents itself, "Wherein have I been lacking in response to divine Love, when and where have I not reflected that Love?" Quite recently this question, squarely faced, uncovered to me a mistake I had made in criticizing and condemning one whom I thought lacking in love and charity. My error recognized and acknowledged, and the effort made to overcome the sense of criticism with the love which refuses to know anything but good of any one, brought about that true state of consciousness wherein an old physical trouble that had tried to present itself, found no response in discordant thinking, and so disappeared almost immediately.

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