A man called at the Reading Room to ask if he could read something about the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. The librarian invited him into the study room and gave him "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy" by Sibyl Wilbur. He read for two hours.

When he came out to go to his home, he told the librarian his reason for asking about our Leader. He said that his two children had just returned to England after spending the war years in America, and when they came back they asked their parents to let them attend the Christian Science Sunday School. The parents felt they should know something authentic about Christian Science and Mrs. Eddy before giving their permission. After this man had talked with the librarian for some time he said he was willing to let the children attend our Sunday School. He seemed quite happy when he left, and accepted an invitation to a forthcoming lecture, which he attended.

Later in the year he visited this Reading Room again and purchased two copies of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy as Christmas gifts for his children. He also bought four copies of the Christian Science Quarterly. for he and his wife had begun the study of the Lesson-Sermon. He was very grateful for the wonderful inspiration and joy which they were all finding in this study.

A husband and wife traveling south came to the Reading Room in a confused and discouraged state of thought. Their car had broken down and had been towed to a garage, where they were informed that the bearings were burned out, that at least one connecting rod was broken, and that it would be three days before the repair job could be completed.

The librarian welcomed them with a great sense of love, recognizing her opportunity for divine service and their need of being awakened from the aggressive suggestions of inharmony. She counseled them to look away from the material, false picture, which presented only negative suggestions, and to remember that "metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul" (Science and Health, p. 269), and that "these ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual consciousness, and they have this advantage over the objects and thoughts of material sense,—they are good and eternal." They saw that their first need was not to acquire material bearings and a connecting rod but to spiritualize their consciousness and to behold Mind's ideas as all that are present, united, real, and tangible.

The librarian assured them with a smile that the Reading Room was a good place in which "to get their bearings," and said that the real man, the expression of God, is in no way connected with matter or accidents. She helped them to see that they could joyfully know man's eternal unity with God. Then they all poured forth the oil of gratitude for God's care in former experiences. The travelers went into the study room to clarify their thought regarding man's unity with divine Mind and to gain more understanding of God's harmonious government. The librarian continued to know the allness of God, good, and the consequent nothingness of delay, accidents, and confusion.

In about an hour these travelers again went to the garage to see how the mechanic was progressing, and as they left the Reading Room the librarian reminded them to continue to watch for God's work, and not to watch a mortal man. Within an hour they returned to bid the librarian goodbye; their car was repaired and waiting for them. They were deeply grateful for the librarian's instantaneous response which aroused them to their need of turning their thought wholly to the truth of being. They saw that by their doing this immediately, the opinions held by mortal mind were reversed, and the perfection and harmony of God's spiritual government of the universe and man were made manifest in their human affairs.

A newcomer to our city, who had known of Christian Science for several years but had not made practical use of it, came to the Reading Room utterly discouraged and despondent. Physicians had told her that she needed an immediate operation, and she was suffering acutely from self-condemnation and remorse because she had neglected the study of Science, and had not attended our church more regularly.

The librarian talked to her of God's love for all His children. She told her that He never condemns, but lifts condemnation by revealing to mankind that there is nothing in man's true selfhood to condemn.

The woman then asked for the names of the practitioners in the locality, and these were given to her from the current issue of The Christian Science Journal. Since this time she has become a joyous, active student of Christian Science. She received her healing without a surgical operation entirely through Christian Science treatment and is now a member of The Mother Church. Her gratitude is unbounded.