Editorial June 5, 1976 Issue

A Stone Called Ebenezer

Naomi Price

Mrs. Eddy once asked one of her students if she kept a record of her cases of healing. When this one replied that she had not done so, Mrs. Eddy urged her always to be faithful in keeping an exact record of her demonstrations in the practice of Christian Science. She went on to indicate one never knows when such a memorandum might prove of value to the Cause.^{See We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, First Series (Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1943), p. 68;}

Anyone who has done this will know how encouraging it can also be to oneself on days when inspiration seems less alive—obscured, perhaps, by fear and a stagnant sense of divine power. Recalling past proofs of God's healing presence can rekindle flickering hope and faith and thereby pave the way to further healing.

So precious is each triumph of good over evil brought about through the understanding of Christ, Truth, that it hardly seems conceivable that one could forget a single incident. Yet Mrs. Eddy herself told her student she regretted that in the rush of a crowded life she had found it easy to forget even important healings. Experience shows how necessary it is to make a definite effort to remember all the times God's help is proved practical in daily affairs.

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