Article November 18, 1916 Issue

Taking God at His Word

OLIVIA E. G. STRATHERN

One day I was walking on a woodland path with a young Scientist who had but a short time before been healed by the word of Truth after years of sickness and pain. We had been gathering wild flowers, and as my friend, who had found a rare flower, was speaking of its beauty and fragrance, she suddenly held up her hand, saying, "But what is this?" and there I saw the well known signs of poison.

I recognized a so-called poison plant near where she had found the flower; but remembering these words in one of our hymns (Hymnal, p. 236), —

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