One day when I was scheduled...

Thelma F. Mather

One day when I was scheduled to introduce a luncheon speaker at a gathering of several hundred persons, I awoke with a sore throat and a voice hardly louder than a whisper. In reading the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, I came to the words of Pilate (John 18:38), "What is truth?" Immediately I thought, "This claim of error is not truth, never was truth, never can be truth." From that moment I realized man's perfection as the reflection of God, and I was healed. I went about all my duties of the day entirely free.

More recently, while I was helping a group of people open a camp for girls, a mattress thrown from a loft landed on my head in such a way that something snapped in the back of my neck. It appeared to be a dislocation of a vertebra. Immediately I declared, in the words of Mrs. Eddy from "the scientific statement of being" on page 468 of Science and Health: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." Also I declared the facts that everything in God's universe is in its right place and nothing but good has ever happened to man.

Holding to these truths, I was able to continue the work without arousing any concern among those with whom I was working. At home alone, I went to work silencing mortal mind's suggestions of pain and discomfort. Feeling I should call for help, I telephoned a practitioner, but she was not available.

"This is my opportunity," I thought. "After all, God is right here with me, and He has given me the power and intelligence to handle any situation. This thing called fear has no power, no intelligence, and can never control an idea of divine Mind. Love fills all space, and man rests in Love."

After a perfectly comfortable night I awakened in the morning to find that it was next to impossible to move my head. While the family was at church and I was reading the Lesson-Sermon for that week on the subject, "Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?" I saw clearly that matter and fear are not power, that where perfect Love reigns there can be no fear, and that the man of God's creating, the only man there is, gives and receives only that which comes from divine Love. As I reasoned thus, I heard a snap at the back of my neck, and I was instantly released from all stiffness. The discomfort completely disappeared in a short time.

I am grateful for these proofs of our Father's loving care and for the opportunity of learning and understanding more of our true selfhood as revealed in Christian Science.— (Mrs.) Thelma F. Mather, Lexington, Massachusetts.

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