Exploring the opportunities on the Internet for sharing over the years, I now find that I have used various usernames. Some are variations around Mary Hart or Kiha, a family name, but they all belong to me.
There were two interesting and wonderful testimonies by two Titanic survivors published in the Christian Science Sentinel in 1912, one by Lieutenant Charles H. Lightoller, R. N. R., and the other by Lawrence Beesley. Both had been studying Christian Science for several years prior to the tragic sinking of the Titanic.
Charles Herbert Lightoller, who was the highest-ranked officer that survived the Titanic, was one of the last to leave the ship as it was about to go under. Lightoller was a Christian Scientist, and had had several years of studying Christian Science by the time of this trying experience, which was only one of several that he endured.
Of noble character, Lightoller was a hero atDunkirk during World War II. Having been asked by the Admiralty for a loan of his 58-foot cruising yacht, Sundowner, for the evacuation from Dunkirk, he himself went with his eldest son and a young Sea Scout, and rescued 130 men on his boat. Click here for a photo of Sundowner, and to hear Lightoller relating that adventure in a BBC interview.
The 1958 movie of the Titanic, A Night to Remember, reveals a better characterization ofLightoller than that of Cameron’s 1997 Titanic.The facts known about his life bear out that theformer movie portrays Lightoller’s character better, as I would expect. Lightoller's son advised Kenneth More, the popular actor at the time, how to portray his father.
I found it interesting that Lightoller’s widow visited the set of A Night to Remember during thefilming, and Lawrence Beesley also, who actually wanted to get into the movie, but was refused by the Director, because of union rules.
Please click on the link to view on YouTube (without buffering) the Christian Science Lecture, 10 years later: Love is the victor. The Lecture itself is preceded by an eye-witness account of the airplane flying overhead and into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City on 9/11 by a Christian Science couple who lived downtown on Fifth Avenue. They tell also of the healing impact that immediately followed this event, which they saw evident in the loving acts of kindness and compassion everywhere they went. Such a fitting prelude to the Lecture that follows, which they introduce.
The Lecturer, Marta Greenwood, CSB, is a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science healing. She is also currently President of The Mother Church.
On Wednesday evening, after we arrived home from the testimony meeting at church, my daughter noticed she no longer had the Jade that was in her ring on her finger. It was an heirloom from her grandmother, which she enjoyed having, since an aunt had given it to her. I told her we would go early the next morning to look for it at church, because I knew the place would be vacuumed in the afternoon. As we drove there, I was praying aloud in the car. I have had many wonderful demonstrations of restoration before, and I confidently expected to have the jade restored to Nicole. Below are some of the spiritual ideas that came to me (not in the order that they unfolded to me at the time):
“Seek, and ye shall find!”
The Parable of the Lost Coin (Luke 15:8-10)
“Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”
There is one Mind, and all is Mind and Mind’s infinite ideas.
That which appeared to to be a Jade to human sense is really a spiritual idea in Mind, a property of Mind (and not of matter), and since Nicole actually is a compound idea of Mind, she includes this property of Mind and can’t be separated from it.
There had been a marvelous testimony on Wednesday evening of someone having a cellphone restored after a long hike through the wild. This was fresh in thought, plus I thought of the two incidences when my son had lost a necklace and the keys to our apartment in the sand on Hawaii beaches, which were also restored as the result of scientific prayer.
After we arrived at church, I had a clear sense that Nicole would find the Jade, and immediately I heard her yell out that she had found it. I gratefully called the church clerk, and told her that it was found. The little Jade was in one hand with my bunch of keys, and the other hand held my cellphone, on which I was talking with the clerk while walking to the car. At the car, I noticed that the Jade was no longer in my hand, so we turned around and went back into the church to retrace our steps. I immediately handled the thought of reversal, and knew that Truth reverses error, and error is nothing, and therefor, Truth cannot be reversed, nor the finding of the Jade. Nicole again called out to me that she found the Jade under the car, and I told her that I had a feeling that that was where it fell, although I didn’t look there first. We drove home, and put the Jade and the ring in a music box until we go to have it remounted. This kind of experience is available to anyone who studies Christian Science, and is willing to accept the Mind that was in Christ, Jesus, with it’s redeeming, spiritual ideas. Also, we are grateful to Mary Baker Eddy, who overcame all obstacles to prove and teach what she discovered of God’s nature and essence.
