Each day I have cause to be...

Lillian L. Koropp

Each day I have cause to be increasingly grateful for this glorious Science and its healing power.

Some years ago, in my business experience, over a period of several years I would be seized quite suddenly with an overwhelming sense of confusion. I was grateful for the proximity of a Christian Science Reading Room where I would spend my noon hour. I was always comforted. There was no apparent reason for this confusion, as I had been employed at this type of work for many years, was well qualified to do it, knew all its phases, and had every reason to believe that I did the work intelligently.

One day while studying I took a dictionary and looked up the word "confuse." One of the definitions which I found was, "To mix or blend indiscriminately." We learn in Christian Science that there is one Mind, from which emanates all, and only, truth. Consequently there can be no mixture in God's kingdom. It follows that truth and error, love and hate, good and evil, do not blend or mix. Our beloved Leader. Mary Baker Eddy, refers to them in our textbook, Science and Health, as contraries. At this particular time it seemed very easy and desirable to claim my true selfhood as a son of God and heir to the kingdom. However, when others seemed to be thoughtless, inconsiderate, and, particularly, critical of me, I was not willing to see this perfect man as my brother, despite the command in Scripture (Matt. 22:39), "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." I knew better, for I have had Christian Science practically all my life; but I was not knowing better. With this rather startling reawakening I commenced very earnestly, starting with my early morning prayer and continuing throughout the day, even as I walked along the streets, to identify man impersonally with every good and right quality of Spirit. As I thus truly embraced my brother with thoughts of truth and love—as this indiscriminate mixture of good and evil ceased—the confusion disappeared entirely. It has never returned.

At this same time one of my toenails was split practically to the cuticle. I had been unconcerned about it and thought that it would grow together, but it had not; and I wish to mention that it had been split for several years. However, as this division in my thinking was eliminated—the tendency to separate my brother man from his true identity as God's perfect child —the toenail grew together.

Likewise, at this time, the bone in one of my small toes was badly out of shape and exceedingly painful as my shoe rubbed against it. However, as I persisted in aligning my thought to divine Principle, the toe bone became straight. All this proves conclusively that, as we read in Science and Health (p.370), "The body improves under the same regimen which spiritualizes the thought," and (ibid., p. 467), "Having no other gods, turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, having that Mind which was also in Christ."

I am deeply grateful to our Father-Mother God for His loving-kindnesses, to Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, and to Mrs. Eddy, through whose purity and unselfishness the power of Truth was revealed to the world. And my deep thanks are due the practitioners who are always so willing to help us in our hour of need.— (Miss) Lillian L. Koropp, Forest Hills, New York.

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