Article December 8, 1898 Issue

ACCIDENTS

BY SCHUYLER S. CLARK.

Within four months I have demonstrated three times that the above word has no place in the vocabulary of a Christian Scientist.

1. While trimming the stems of some daisies last June the knife slipped and cut deeply into my right thumb, which began to bleed freely. I tore off a bit of wrapping paper, pressed it against the cut, and then turned my thought from it by realizing the Truth. The bleeding stopped almost at once. The next day there was not a particle of the inevitable soreness which used to follow such wounds, and I was neither prevented from, nor inconvenienced in writing, of which I have considerable to do. All false appearances disappeared in a week, leaving no scar.

2. On an errand one day in July I was riding rapidly on a wheel when my knee intercepted a tin pail I was carrying and I was thrown violently to the ground. I got up instantly and declared that nothing could interfere with what I was going to do, because it was right. With this understanding I brushed off the dust, walked a few feet to where the wheel had landed, found it uninjured, and proceeded on the errand. A claim of sprained wrist tried to assert itself but did not succeed.

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