Testimony of Healing February 12, 1921 Issue

About four years ago an incident occurred which I...

Vera H. Smith

About four years ago an incident occurred which I accepted as an illustration of the powerlessness of error when one's thought is fortified with the truth. With friends I had attended a Wednesday evening service and was on my way home, having assured them that I did not hesitate to walk alone the blocks between their home and mine. But I must have disregarded Mrs. Eddy's injunction, found on page 210 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," wherein she writes: "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them," and must have permitted my thought to become dormant to a sense of God's presence, for I was awakened to my surroundings when a rather large dog suddenly thrust his nose at me from behind; in fact, he half jumped at me. I was somewhat startled and fearful, but I was quickly strengthened with the thought that God's ideas are in their right place and I had nothing to fear. The dog came at me again, but this time I was able to see that he was muzzled. Then the episode became illuminating as an illustration of the fact that error is always muzzled and powerless when one is fortified with an understanding of divine Truth, Life, and Love.

Through Science I have been constantly benefited during the past eleven years. I was healed of a broken wrist bone within four days, being able on the fourth day to dress myself and manipulate a typewriter. Christian Science has taught me the source of my supply, and every real need has been met through this understanding. I have found, too, that in so far as I have been willing to relinquish preconceived ideas as to the outcome of seemingly discordant conditions, and have been willing to accept divine direction, harmony has always resulted, in oftentimes unexpected ways. So much that is good and beautiful in life has come to me through my endeavor to be a Christian Scientist that, as so many others have said, I am not able to express my gratitude in words.

(Mrs.) Vera H. Smith Cranford, New Jersey.

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