Testimony of Healing May 14, 1904 Issue

One morning about five years ago, my husband, a lady...

JANE M. GATES

One morning about five years ago, my husband, a lady and her two young daughters, and myself, started in a carriage to visit another daughter. This daughter was just beginning to be interested in Christian Science. We also had in view another call where we had previously left a copy of Science and Health. About five or six miles from town the horses became frightened, gave a lunge forward with such force as to break the harness, letting the carriage pole drop, pulling the carriage by the tugs. At the next leap of the horses the pole was run into the ground, breaking it and upsetting the carriage with me underneath, while Mrs. B. was thrown against a post, my husband on the barbed wire fence, and the young girls escaped without injury.

The first thing I heard after the shock was Mrs. B. declaring, "God is all; nobody is hurt." I asked to have the buggy, which was resting upon me, taken up. In a few minutes there were neighbors gathered who had seen the accident, and one of them, with Mrs. B.'s help, extricated me. As I arose and started to walk, it seemed impossible, but by silently declaring the truth and seeking to realize it, I did take a few steps. Getting under the fence and turning around I saw my husband, apparently lifeless, lying on the wire with some of it wrapped around him, and I said to the girls, "Help us to declare the truth for Mr. Gates." In about three quarters of an hour, after the men had laid him on the grass as dead, he raised his head and looked around. In less than half an hour more he walked to the roadside to wait for a conveyance to take us back home.

As we were waiting, my own sense of pain, and my seemingly helpless condition caused such a feeling of loneliness and homesickness to come over me as I never had before, when all at once, as though some one were speaking to me, I realized clearly that our home is in divine Principle, the pain ceased, and a sense of peace and rest came to me that did not leave me in all the weeks that followed.

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