After having so many proofs...

Eugenie von Stieda

After having so many proofs of divine Love's care, protection, and guidance, and of the power of Truth to heal, in these last five years, I feel compelled to express my gratitude anew in our beloved periodicals, to encourage some weary or downcast wanderer on the way from sense to Soul.

Although I came to this country years ago without any money, I did not worry, knowing that Mind provides for and maintains all its ideas wherever they may be, and Mind did not forsake me. It would take too long to go into all the details; I can only say things worked out most harmoniously, and I was guided in a wonderful way.

I should like, however, to mention some of my recent healings. While I was living in the country with friends. intestinal influenza troubled me for a fortnight, and then it left me as suddenly as it had come on. During all that time I was up and even able to undertake a trip to Sweden. At another time I had a severe attack of grippe in the head, with a racking pain and high fever. I was staying in a boarding house, the hostess of which was a Christian Scientist. At the end of the first day, since I was not able to think clearly and work for myself, she asked my permission to call for Christian Science treatment. Help was kindly given, and in twenty-four hours I was well.

One morning when I awoke I was unable to arise from my bed. I could not even lift my arms, and my body seemed paralyzed. For a few moments I lay quietly, trying to realize my oneness with Mind, and the fact that I was in the divine presence, safe from any error. Then I sat up, and a few minutes later managed to get up and dress, though still with difficulty and pain in breathing. I went downstairs to breakfast and then to my room to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. When I had finished, I felt perfectly all right.

Once, while living alone in a house, I had a bad attack of poisoning. Somehow I managed to go downstairs to open the door for the maid who came daily. An hour later a friend came to see me, and she rang up a practitioner for help. The practitioner called in the afternoon. Though I felt I was passing on, the loving work done for me preserved my sense of divine Life—the only Life there is—and when the practitioner left, I was not afraid to stay in the house alone in this condition. The next morning I awoke well.

One winter, after a heavy snowfall, a sudden thaw set in and the roads were as slippery as ice. In a quiet street, in the residential part to town, I suddenly slipped and found myself in such an awkward position with my legs doubled under me that I was in great pain and could not get up. I knew at once that I could never be outside of divine consciousness, which means eternal harmony, and that "God is ... a very present help in trouble." In a few minutes a van passed, and the driver seeing my plight stopped and came across to help me up. I gratefully declined any further assistance, and managed to walk home slowly. One ankle was sprained and hurt, but when I reached home the pain had ceased, and though the foot was swollen for two or three days I had no further trouble.

My greatest reason for gratitude, however, is the fact that I have touched the hem of Truth's garment through Christian Science, and have realized to some extent the allness of good and the nothingness of evil, which gives me a sense of perfect security in ever-present divine Love. I had proof of that while living for eighteen months during the war in different districts of London, and being without any fear during heavy air raids. When the sirens woke me at night, I did some mental work for protection and fell asleep peacefully, sometimes not even hearing the "all clear" signal. My protection was the knowledge of God's nearness and the promise of the ninety-first Psalm.

These are only a few of my experiences. Daily I feel the presence and power of Truth. Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for her teachings of the practical application of the Christ, Truth; however, I am sharing my knowledge of the truth with my fellow men as best I can and trying to live it day by day, so as to be worthy of being called a Christian Scientist.—(Miss) Eugenie von Stieda, Carno, Montgomeryshire, Wales.

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