Article April 18, 1914 Issue

Divine Intelligence Ever Available

HELEN G. YERGER

The following incident is one of many that have come to me during the six years of my study of Christian Science, and illustrates the difference in results between wrong methods and right. During these years I have been blessed with many physical healings and the overcoming of various forms of fear both for myself and for my children, so that my gratitude to God for Christian Science is unbounded. My first healing from lung trouble was a revelation to me, and remains a source of daily thankfulness. The following incident, however, rather than one of physical healing, is given as my first grateful testimony to the operation of divine Truth, because it is to a certain extent different from many others, while it furnishes specific points of proof of this operation in human consciousness.

I was recently under the necessity of taking a teachers' examination in subjects which I had neither studied nor had occasion to use for more than fifteen years. The time for review of the subjects was brief, and many family duties seemed to absorb what time might otherwise have been available for the purpose. Several physical ailments manifested themselves during this time of hurried preparation, until on the day before the examination a practitioner's help was necessary. On the morning of the appointed day these ills were not entirely overcome, though the help was apparent, and no sense of discouragement or fear of failure had entered my thought; rather was I conscious of perfect mental clarity and confidence.

The subject in which I was least prepared was algebra, and I had been informed that this would be taken up first. As I descended from the street-car in front of the building in which the examination was to be held, I was almost startled by the fact that, through no avenue of the senses, I was fully informed that a certain topic which in the course of my preparation I had deemed of insufficient importance to require study, would form one entire question in the examination. Arrived at the hall set apart for the examination, I found myself very much ahead of other teachers as to time, so much so that I considered going into an anteroom, in which I had left some text-books, to make a hurried study of the subject, which I knew to be a simple one to master. I was not obedient to this prompting, however, though the failure to respond to it disquieted me, and I idly waited the expiration of the time until the questions should be given out. When this was done, I was in no sense surprised to find that one of the ten questions was on the subject already spoken of; but so rebuked was I by the realization of the result of my failure to respond to the inward prompting, that I began to work with a sense of self-condemnation which seemed to shut up the avenues of mental activity and to make a certainty of failure.

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