Christian Science -- Fiction; People with disabilities -- Fiction
"That’s exactly it. Well, we do it. Then, having put all fear out of
our lives, what is there left to make one unhappy? If you are no longer
afraid of losing your health or your money or of dying or of being
maimed or injured in accidents by land or sea, or of old age or any
misfortune coming to any of your dear ones, so that it leaves you
perfectly free to come and go as you please, to eat at all hours things
which used to produce indigestion, to eat lobster and ice-cream
together, drink strong coffee late at night and drop off to sleep like a
baby, and, if it eliminates all dread of the unseen and the unknowable,
what more is there left to fret about, I’d like to know?"
"How about waking up in the middle of the night to worry about your
debts?" asked St. Quentin.
"The answer to that is that, at first you begin by remembering that as
God is the Source of all supply, if you are consistent, the way will be
opened to pay your debts. And, after you once master that comforting
fact, it is easy to see that the next thing will be that you won’t wake
up in the night to worry or even to think."
"Carolina!" exclaimed Mrs. Winchester, "do you mean to tell me that you,
who used to lie awake hours and hours every night of your life, can
sleep through till morning?"
"I do, Cousin Lois. Often actually without turning over. And with no
bad dreams. Can you believe me?"
Doctor Colfax rose abruptly, as if he could bear no more, and when, with
a little more leave-taking, St. Quentin had offered to drive Mrs.
Winchester back to Sherman’s in his new motor-car, and the Howards and
Carolina were left alone, Mr. Howard turned to Carolina and said:
"Carol, I have heard a great deal, here and there, about your interest
in Guildford and your wish to restore the place. Would you mind telling
me your plans?"
"Not in the least, Mr. Howard. The place has been sold under its
mortgage, as you doubtless know, but it is of no more value to its
present owner than any of the land surrounding it, which is equally
arable. Its only value to us was because it was our ancestral estate.
It has a water-front, and, having been left intact for over two hundred
years, its timber is enormously valuable. If I owned it, and had a
little working capital, I could pay off the mortgage and restore the
house with the timber alone."
"Why, how is that, Carolina? Is it so extensive as all that?"
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