Testimony of Healing March 7, 1936 Issue

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on Page 293 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"...

Basil C. L. Bean with contributions from Alfreda Agnes Bouchard Bean

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 293 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," writes, "There is no vapid fury of mortal mind—expressed in earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity—and this so-called mind is self-destroyed."

The real meaning of these words stood out vividly before me during the experience through which I recently passed when Quetta was subjected to an earthquake of considerable violence. The devastation and suffering left in its wake could be seen as the way in which the vapid fury of mortal mind would simulate the power of God. This knowledge on my part uncovered its disguise, rid it of its horror, and left me, amid the seeming disturbance, calm and peaceful and free to work the work that was set before me.

For this freedom from feat I owe our Leader inexpressible gratitude. The power of a destroying, killing force stood exposed and impotent before her revelation of its nothingness, and thus enabled me to glimpse somewhat the permanence of reality. My beautiful home which lay destroyed in matter still existed as a quality in Mind, and in so far as this truth is increasingly recognized it is more real than before.

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