For all the encouragement and...

Flora E. Lunam

For all the encouragement and inspiration I have received from reading testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals during many years, I am deeply grateful. Truly the blessings and healings that have resulted from the study and practice of this revealed truth cannot be numbered.

There have been some outstanding healings of difficulties which to human sense were of a serious nature. When our daughter was six years of age, she was healed of a severe attack of scarlet fever when Mrs. Eddy's hymn beginning "Shepherd, show me how to go" (Poems, p. 14) was sung to her. She was sick for a week only, when the healing took place, and there was no convalescent period. At another time a broken collarbone was set by mental surgery alone, before medical aid arrived. As the young student grew to the teen age, the realization that man reflects divine intelligence and that all right and true ideas are present when needed, helped solve many a difficult school problem, especially during the later grades.

When our son was fifteen he went to work with two of his uncles during his summer holidays. They were engaged in putting up large oil tanks in small towns. At the time, I was visiting a sister in eastern Canada. I was talking with her one day in her kitchen when the thought of an accident to my son came to me. I tried to put it away as a suggestion of mortal mind, but it was so insistent that I excused myself and went to my room, where I worked to know the perfection of God's universe. I declared firmly that God fills all space and that He governs all thought as well as all action; also, that under His perfect law and order there can be no accidents. Finally I felt free and confident, and returned to my sister, but I said nothing of it to her because she was not interested in Science.

In two week's time I received a letter from my son, and the first thing he mentioned was that he had had a miraculous escape from death; that a large steel ladder weighing four hundred pounds had been accidentally released and he had been directly in its path. He had been led to jump sideways, and it had buried itself in the ground beside him. This incident occurred at the same time that I was working on the above-mentioned lines.

I was led to take up work for him at another time, when he collided with another skater on an open-air rink and was "knocked out," as he later put it. We learned from one of his friends that they had carried him off the rink and that in a few moments he had picked up his hockey stick and started for home, which was two blocks away. He had to cross the streetcar tracks twice on his way home. When I found him, he had removed his skates and was lying on the sofa, moaning. When I questioned him as to what his trouble was, he insisted he did not know.

I then called his friend and learned of the accident. I read to him from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and repeated "the scientific statement of being" (p. 468). Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 424), "Under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection." This and other passages were read. It was realized that in reality nothing had happened to God's idea, man. In a short time he seemed like one waking out of a dream. I the morning I went into his room, and I shall never forget how bright and happy he looked. There was not a mark to show where he had been hit, except a faint redness on the right temple. He said he did not remember anything that had happened from the time he was hit until he awakened in the morning. He was very grateful that he had been led safely home. Other serious accidents have been prevented by realization of the presence of divine Mind.

At one time, when life seemed to be edding very low, through my repeating aloud that God was my Life and with the loving help of a friend I was able to be up and around at my work the next day. For these and many other healings I am deeply grateful to our Father-Mother God.

Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for the works of Christ Jesus, and for our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who caught the torch of Truth and bore it on. For class instruction and for membershiop in The Mother Church and in a branch church, I am very grateful.—(Mrs.) Flora E. Lunam, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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