I am very grateful for Christian Science and for a wonderful healing I had while I was a student in college. I developed a bad cough which, due to considerable pressure of work and total absorption in college activities, I ignored hoping that it would eventually go away.

One night, however, I awoke to discover I was coughing blood. This together with the sudden awareness that I had not been able to retain any food for several hours made me feel very afraid.

Despite the early hour I decided to call a Christian Science practitioner. She spoke calmly and gently to me, asking me to study the third verse of Hymn No. 154 in the Christian Science Hymnal which says:

I studied until breakfast time and then got up feeling better than I had done for weeks. Very quickly all pain, fear, and pressure disappeared and so did the cough. I found I had not only had a physical healing but that I was able to enjoy college work without feeling pressure or anxiety that I would not finish the course successfully. My whole attitude to my studies and to Christian Science changed and I was more joyous and confident.

Sometime later I was called upon by the college authorities to have a compulsory chest X ray. The cough had been diagnosed by the matron as a severe case of whooping cough and it was her opinion that my chest would be permanently affected. I felt no fear, but confidently knew that I was spiritual and perfect, made in the image and likeness of God. The results of the X ray proved that my healing was complete and my chest clear.

Following this healing I passed my college exams with credit and was able to enter the teaching profession.

Three years ago I was persuaded by colleagues to apply for the headship of a new school being built in my area. I was subsequently called before the Education Committee and found myself dreading the interview. I had had only a few years' experience in the teaching profession and had only held a minor post of responsibility for a few months. I was also worried by the fact that this was to be quite a large school in a deprived area and that it was customary to give such schools to experienced head teachers. So much doubt entered my thought that I considered withdrawing my application.

It was at this point that I realized that I had to remove from my thinking my personal assessment of my own and others' qualifications. Instead I began to realize that the qualifications needed were qualities such as strength, patience, love, understanding, and so on. That everyone can reflect these qualities and that the interviewing body would recognize these qualities being reflected.

On the day of the interview I felt a calm trust in God. Although the interview was long and difficult I never once felt concerned as to whether I would or would not get the job. You can imagine my joy and surprise when I was offered the job and told that I was the youngest head teacher the committee could ever remember appointing.

Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 242), "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law ofsin and death." I continue in my work happily facing the many problems that occur by using my small knowledge of Christian Science to "dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love."

I am indeed grateful for Christian Science, for the many wonderful healings I have experienced, and for the way in which, when we turn to God, we can find an answer to every problem.

(Mrs.) Jennifer Margaret Powick
Caistor, Lincolnshire, England