How grateful we can be that...

Lillian G. Collings

How grateful we can be that Mrs. Eddy gave to the world "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and her other writings, as well as the organization of The Mother Church and its varied activities! I became interested in Christian Science when I was very ill with pleurisy. The friend with whom I was staying at the time became very much alarmed, and said that I must have either a doctor or a Christian Science practitioner. Having read that Christian Science heals, I told my friend to call a practitioner. I am most grateful now that I did.

When the practitioner arrived she calmed my fears and I went to sleep, something I had not been able to do for some time. The next thing I knew it was morning, and I was completely free. I am deeply grateful to the practitioner for the love and compassion she showed me that evening.

A number of years later I fractured my ankle. I was alone at the time and unable to attract anyone's attention. While lying on the snow and ice I repeated "the scientific statement of being," which is found on page 468 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, as well as other passages from this textbook. Finally a car came down the street, and the woman who was driving found me. I was taken to her home, where she told me that she had been in town shopping and had decided to go to a movie, but she had felt as if a voice were telling her not to go to the movie, but to go home. On her way she had found me. That certainly was a proof of God's loving care.

I had a long struggle with the effects of my exposure to the ice and snow, but Truth sustained me. Sometimes, while my ankle was healing, I would open my copy of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" by Mrs. Eddy to page 174 and read: "To-day my soul can only sing and soar. An increasing sense of God's love, omnipresence, and omnipotence enfolds me. Each day I know Him nearer, love Him more, and humbly pray to serve Him better." That would always make me press on with renewed courage and inspiration, and I was healed.

One time I was given a very important manuscript to be printed. It was in a large envelope, which was addressed to me. Just before I arrived home I found that I had lost it. I refused to accept the suggestion that it might be destroyed, knowing that the Golden Rule would be put to use by whoever found it. The next morning when I went to get my mail the envelope with the manuscript in it was handed to me.

My need of supply has always been met. I am grateful for the Sanatorium of the Christian Science Benevolent Association in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and for the love, patience, and compassion which were shown to me during my stay there. I am grateful to know that God is our only physician.—(Miss) Lillian G. Collings, Boston, Massachusetts.

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