Testimony of Healing March 3, 1951 Issue

How grateful I am for the mighty...

Lucy M. Ward

How grateful I am for the mighty laws of God, spiritually interpreted for daily use by Mrs. Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health. In my brief study of this Science I had learned to place radical reliance on God, as taught by Christ Jesus and Mrs. Eddy. In the textbook she writes (p. 192), "Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power."

While we were living on the edge of a vast forest in northern Wisconsin twenty-eight years ago, I proved the potency of the divine laws of God, as I understood them through my study of Christian Science, to protect and guide us at a time of peril. An old settler had directed my little daughter and me to a blueberry patch about four miles from home. As we walked along an abandoned logging road, we talked about the Bible stories, especially the one that told of Daniel's protection in the lions' den.

We had been picking for about two hours when the stillness was broken by the howling of a mother timber wolf and the yip-yip of her whelps not more than a city block away. I reasoned that the wolves must have seen us because of their elevated location, but we knew that our safety was in our awareness of God's ever-presence and power. So we continued to pick blueberries and rejoiced in our freedom from fear, even when the wolves came yelping to within two hundred feet of us.

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