My husband and I were just starting a business and had obtained...

Clara J. Keener

My husband and I were just starting a business and had obtained a loan from a bank for the construction of a small office building. My husband was working for a railroad company, and we depended on his salary to make the monthly payments on this loan. However, he became ill and could not work, so we were unable to meet these payments and were threatened with foreclosure. I tried every avenue I could think of to obtain financial assistance, but in vain.

I had newly become interested in Christian Science, and as a last resort I turned to it for help. I called a friend who had had class instruction in Science. She came and talked with me, allaying my fears. She gave me passages from the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings to study. I was assured that "with God all things are possible" (Matt. 19:26).

One of the passages from Science and Health is from page 368: "When we come to have more faith in the truth of being than we have in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith in living than in dying, more faith in God than in man, then no material suppositions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error."

One week before the date of eviction, a dear friend from out of town, whom we had helped when she had had financial difficulties a few years before, came into my office. She said that she had been thinking of me a great deal of late. She just could not get me out of her mind, so had come to see if there was something she could do for me. I told her what the problem was. She said that now it was her turn to help us. Thus the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled (65:24), "It shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." And as Mrs. Eddy writes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 232), "The right way wins the right of way, even the way of Truth and Love whereby all our debts are paid, mankind blessed, and God glorified."

I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, and for Mrs. Eddy, who gave us Christian Science and provided so many aids for our growth and progress Spiritward.

(Mrs.) Clara J. Keener, Oroville, California

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