HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS: May 8, 1954 Issue

[Following is the text of the program of the above title released for broadcast the week end of April 30—May 2 in the radio series, "How Christian Science Heals," heard internationally over about 600 stations. This is one of the weekly programs produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts.]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 33A - Even in an Earthquake You Can Trust God's Law

M. Primrose Kent

On this program Miss M. Primrose Kent of London, England, told of her own experience, as follows:

I was in Quetta, India, when an earthquake occurred in the middle of the night. I was asleep in bed when suddenly the building I was in collapsed completely like a pack of cards and I found myself buried. I had not been a student of Christian Science for long, but I knew that statements of divine Truth protect and heal. So I began prayerfully to repeat "the scientific statement of being," which I knew by heart. It is one of Mary Baker Eddy's most familiar statements in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468). I also thought of God's great love for His creation and realized that there was no intelligence or ability to harm or destroy in the bricks and stones all about me.

I was grateful that my head was quite free, although the rest of my body up to the neck was deeply buried, and I could not move at all. There was an enormous weight on both my legs, and at first this weight was very painful; but as I continued to think prayerfully of the truths of God and realize my true relationship to Him, the pain ceased. I lay five hours like this. Once the light from someone searching appeared, and I called out, but was not heard. This made me cry out in rather a frightened way, but my own voice frightened me so much that I stopped calling and began singing one of Mrs. Eddy's hymns, which begins "O gentle presence, peace and joy and power" (Poems, p. 4). As I turned to God in this way, I gained a positive awareness of His nearness and protection, and was much comforted.

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