In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy...

Dorothy S. Cross

In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 454): "Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. Patience must 'have her perfect work.'" And in the Bible we read (James 1:4), "Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."

I should like to tell of one healing resulting from patient, prayerful work. I suffered from sick headaches which lasted for days at a time and which I was supposed to have inherited. The attacks were sudden and severe, and I had much fear to overcome. The working out of this problem took considerable time and spiritual effort, but resulted in much spiritual growth. The healing came after I was elected Second Reader in a branch of The Mother Church.

Immediately after my election the argument came to me, "What if you should have a headache some Sunday morning?" Quickly I realized that God's work is sustained and protected, and I recalled Mrs. Eddy's words in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 1), "And rest assured you can never lack God's outstretched arm so long as you are in His service." Only once throughout my term as Reader was I tempted with a headache, and then I understood that it had no power. I could see clearly that it was but a false belief and no part of my true being. That was thirteen years ago, and the healing has been permanent.

Other healings which I have experienced are those of a growth on my hand, which was healed in one treatment; periodic pains, hay fever, sprains, and malaria. I have also had an instantaneous healing of influenza by realizing that there is in reality no matter. I have also been healed of grief after the passing on of loved ones.

The understanding of God's love and constant care proved a great comfort to me in the rearing of two children. When my son was small, he ran across the carpet barefooted. A needle ran into a toe, broke off, and half of it lodged there. The prayerful work of a practitioner was asked for, and within five days the needle came out of his toe. During those days he suffered no pain or inconvenience.

This same child was also healed of asthma. During attacks, these words from the seventeenth chapter of Acts were of much help (verses 24, 25): "God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things," and (verse 28), "For in him we live, and move, and have our being."

I am grateful for class instruction and for the understanding of God and of man's relationship to Him which unfolds as we study and use what we learn from the Lesson-Sermons, given in the Christian Science Quarterly.—(Mrs.) Dorothy S. Cross, Waco, Texas.

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