Testimony of Healing July 9, 1921 Issue

In Isaiah we read, "When thou passest through the...

Alice Coman Wood

In Isaiah we read, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ... when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." That statement was given me to prove with my understanding of Christian Science, when we were in a strange city and awakened at two o'clock in the morning to find flames on three sides of us and our rooms fast filling with smoke. As we jumped to our feet the omnipresence of God was declared and to my thought instantly came a paragraph from one of our pamphlets, "If one were in a burning building ... there is a law of God which would at once adjust the apparent material circumstances so as instantaneously to bring about his complete deliverance." The words were so positive that every sense of fear and haste was entirely dispelled. I calmly gathered a few trifles of sentimental value and we stepped out of the window to a balcony, On account of the flames coming up from beneath, we had to creep close to the building, but we were knowing all the time that this law of deliverance was operative then and there. Some men from the street, three stories below, put up painters' ladders for us, and so we proved, as did the three men whom King Nebuchadnezzar cast into the fiery furance, the protective power of the truth.

Christian Science has been everything in this journey out of materiality, and we have had many healings in our family. Truth proved its sustaining power when our son was in the army. I am deeply grateful for class teaching, showing me how to apply this truth for myself and others. The study and research work required for an official position are a joyful privilege and all our periodicals are of great help and inspiration. In the heart of the business section of this great city is a church reading room giving out these publications to the weary and thirsty ones, and words are inadequate to express the gratitude for this table prepared in the wilderness. Christian Scientists owe much to our revered Leader for her courageous unfoldment of the Christ, Truth, to this age, and in these latter days we are grateful for every agency which she founded.

(Mrs.) Alice Coman Wood, Chicago, Illinois.

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