In 1920 my oldest sister, who had been sick for years with serious stomach and organic troubles and who had been pronounced incurable, was healed of the fear of disease: and in following years I saw her work out her problems of ill-health, inharmony, and lack of supply through the study and application of Christian Science. Because I had studied English I used to translate paragraphs of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy for her. I started to study the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, to attend the Sunday and Wednesday church services, and to accompany my sister to lectures in New York City. Little by little I learned to reject erroneous thinking and to turn my thoughts toward Spirit. Since then I have attended no other church. I have absolute faith in the teachings of Mrs. Eddy, and through the application of them I have received the greatest wealth there is, the knowledge of God.

I have been healed of goiter through the help of a practitioner. One of the thoughts this practitioner gave me to work with was that God is omnipotent and omnipresent. I studied the definition of "omni" in the dictionary and learned, as Mrs. Eddy also explains, that the word means all, everywhere. Therefore God, good, fills all space. After I understood this, my healing came.

Through the devoted help of the same practitioner we had a beautiful demonstration. Our daughter, who was then five years old, had an acute stomach condition with severe pains, and she had so much fear that for over twenty-four hours she would not taste even water; she had convulsions, and her face was distorted. The practitioner, who lived in New York, whereas we lived in New Jersey, decided to visit us and arrived at our home at midnight. During the trip she worked to break the mesmerism of human mother-love, and by the time she arrived the child was resting peacefully. I learned a very important lesson from this experience. From then on I have seen this child as God's child and have released her from false human attachment.

My husband and I depended on God's guidance and direction from the time we accepted Christian Science as our religion. After four years in the tropics, where we worked for the War Department, we decided that our daughter should have the advantages of a high school education in the United States. We held steadfastly to the Lord's Prayer, especially the phrase, "Thy will be done." With the help of a practitioner our place unfolded beautifully. Shortly after we started to work for guidance, a sailor whom we had entertained in our home several times paid us a visit, and when he learned that we thought of returning to the continent, he asked us to write to his father in Orange, California, for the information we needed concerning agricultural work. Through this channel we received an offer from one of the regular attendants at the Christian Science church in Orange to work on his ranch and at the same time learn the poultry business. We accepted this offer as a demonstration of God's guidance.

We continued to know the truth, as explained by Mrs. Eddy in her writings, that as children of God we now have everything we need; that in reality nothing but good can be manifested. When the general thought was that it was difficult to leave the island of Puerto Rico because of the shortage of airplanes and transports, we were assigned a room for the three of us in a transport leaving right after our resignations had been accepted.

The transport was bringing twelve hundred soldiers to the United States, and enemy submarines were supposed to be still active in the Atlantic Ocean. None of the fears expressed by the other civilians making the trip touched us. Some attributed our unmolested trip to the protection given us by a destroyer, a mine sweeper, and a blimp, but we three were grateful for our knowledge that God was and is with us always. The same protection and guidance were with us in all our experiences after we landed in New Orleans.

We did not know what kind of person my husband's employer was, but we accepted only the teaching that man is God's child. We were met in Los Angeles at midnight, and when we arrived at the ranch, we found a lovely little home waiting for us. We stayed on this ranch for seven months, and our relations were most harmonious, but we were particularly grateful for the love we received from everybody. When homes and ranches were hard to get, through absolute faith in God's guidance we found the lovely place where we are now located.

I have had many instances of help and support in the past two years. and I am indeed grateful for Mrs. Eddy's teachings.—(Mrs.) Elisa D. Liesegang, Orange, California.