"Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else" (Isa. 45:22). These words hung on the wall of my home but seemed very far from true in a family where sickness rather than health was usually the rule. Then Christian Science was presented to my mother, and I was enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School. This Biblical promise became a promise fulfilled. Since that time Christian Science has blessed my life. There have been numerous physical healings, grief has been overcome, and there has been a continuing unfoldment of good in my experience.

For years there was need for an internal adjustment, and although from time to time through my own prayerful work there was improvement, there was no complete healing.

In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 420): "If students do not readily heal themselves, they should early call an experienced Christian Scientist to aid them. If they are unwilling to do this for themselves, they need only to know that error cannot produce this unnatural reluctance." Over a period of months of prayerful work these words repeatedly came to my thought. One morning I made an appointment with a Christian Science practitioner, who lovingly perceived my need. I had reached the point in my thinking where, although physical healing was needed, I wanted a renewal of spirit, a deeper understanding of God as revealed through Christian Science.

For about three weeks no mention was made of the physical problem. A heaviness and dullness of thought was replaced with a renewed sense of love and inspiration in my daily study of Science. The healing of the physical difficulty followed. I had been asked to look away from the body, to take no account of what body was saying about improvement or otherwise. When I was able to do this, and to understand more clearly the nothingness of the belief that man is a creator and grasp the fact that there is no birth or death for God's man, my fear disappeared, and healing took place quite naturally and effortlessly. With this healing there also came an improved general sense of well-being and freedom in my daily life.

I am naturally grateful for the release from the hampering physical problem, but greater still is my gratitude for the spiritual enlightenment that came with the healing and has continued.

One afternoon last year, while my daughter was on holiday in Norway, I felt the need to pray for her safety. This intuition was so great that I left what I was doing, sat down quietly, and began to declare that all of God's ideas are forever in His care, His presence. The fear in my own thought was replaced with a calm confidence as I pondered the sentence from page 473 of Science and Health, "God is everywhere, and nothing apart from Him is present or has power."

I also used the ninety-first Psalm and knew that, right where my daughter was, divine Love was supporting and caring for her. In the presence of divine Love there could be no need; therefore whatever her need seemed to be, it was already supplied by divine intelligence expressed right where she was. I then prayed the Lord's Prayer several times, pondering its saving message, gratefully acknowledging man's at-one-ment with his Father-Mother God. The treatment was so natural, so effortless and inspired, that I noted the time. I returned peacefully to the work I was doing.

On my daughter's return I inquired what she was doing at that time on that particular day. She thought for a moment and then related how at that time she was mountain climbing. It was very hot, the party were not roped together, and she was wearing only well-worn rubber-soled tennis shoes. She was traversing a steep slope of icy snow, when suddenly she found herself slipping. Below her the slope was a sheer drop down to the surface of a glacier pitted with crevasses of blue ice. She admitted being filled with a great sense of fear. The leader of the party was too far ahead to call to, and the others behind could not see her. Suddenly the leader of the party (who was wearing climbing boots) turned round and urgently called to her not to move. He came back and helped her safely over the glacier.

She realized afterward that the terrifying moments had been completely erased from her memory. It had not marred in any way the rest of a perfect day's climbing. She could not recall thinking anything specific at the time except that the words "There are no accidents in God's kingdom" flashed through her thought.

Although she was not with students of Christian Science on this trip, each day she prayerfully studied the Lesson-Sermon before going out.

"Before they call, I will answer" (Isa. 65:24) is the Bible promise that was truly fulfilled.

I am grateful for the loving Way-shower, Christ Jesus, and for the life and work of Mrs. Eddy.

(Mrs.) Doris R. Sayers Croydon, Surrey, England

As I am the daughter mentioned in the mountain experience, I can verify that this is an accurate account of what took place. I can also vouch for the completeness of my mother's physical healing.

(Miss) Elizabeth M. R. Sayers