Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Miscellaneous Writings"...

Clinton Arthur Redgrove

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" under the title "Pond and Purpose" (p. 204): "By purifying human thought, this state of mind permeates with increased harmony all the minutiæ of human affairs. It brings with it wonderful foresight, wisdom, and power; it unselfs the mortal purpose, gives steadiness to resolve, and success to endeavor."

An experience which I had about a year ago enabled me to prove the truth of this statement, and I am most sincerely grateful to God for a Christian Science practitioner's help and for my wife's constant and unswerving support, which made possible a complete and harmonious adjustment of what, to mortal sense, was a most serious problem.

My employers informed me that the company was going into voluntary liquidation and that my services would be terminated in six months' time. As my position carried with it the privilege of a house at a low rental and the full use of the company's car, it seemed that I would soon be left without either. The thought of having to find other employment in a country where I had been living only a short while and at a time of general business inactivity was very distressing.

It was at this time that I asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. He was instant in his denial of unemployment, explaining that since man is a child of God, he is constantly reflecting his Father; and as this is his only real activity, he is always fully employed. The practitioner also pointed out that the house and car were symbolic of useful ideas in Mind and that ideas do not belong to person to give or take away.

My wife helped me to eliminate from my thinking a finite sense of home and to visualize home as man's spiritual habitation, which can never be taken away. The same thought was applied to the car, which was seen to be an idea of transportation, God-given and maintained in Mind.

Gradually the fear which I had entertained gave place to confidence in and gratitude to God for the universality of good, which I could at once claim to be mine. The erroneous thoughts were thus largely replaced by more spiritual thinking.

I soon recognized that my task was to continue to exclude from mind any wrong thoughts, and I therefore devoted much more time to the study of Christian Science and endeavored to read the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly with greater understanding. At this time I was serving a branch church in an active capacity, and this particular work became my first consideration.

Having cleansed my thinking, I knew that if I put my entire trust in God He would open the way and direct my paths; and therefore throughout the whole experience I did not make any human efforts to find either a new position or another home.

Nothing was offered to me in the way of a new position until near the termination of my services, when I was invited to join another company at a higher salary. This appointment, which necessitated my starting on the day after the expiration of my notice, I accepted, and it has proved to be a progressive step in every way.

A matter of days before my services were finally terminated, I learned that an arrangement had been made for me to continue living in the same house for another two years at the same rental and that the car was being transferred to my name as a gift from the company.

This wonderful proof of the certainty of the power of Christian Science to solve our every problem fills me with profound gratitude to God, to Jesus, our Way-shower, and to Mrs. Eddy, who gave us this very practical religion.

I am also humbly grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, which I now realize is a very necessary step in our progress Spiritward.—Clinton Arthur Redgrove, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.

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