Testimony of Healing January 17, 1901 Issue

Saved from Injury

Mary I. DeGroff

One evening my husband, little daughter, and myself were riding in a street car. My little girl's hat blew off, and acting on the impulse of the moment the child sprang out after it; the car was running very fast. My husband and two men who jumped out when the car slowed up as they thought sufficiently were thrown down.

As I saw the child fly through the air, I sat perfectly still declaring the Truth until they brought her back to me. The first thought that presented itself was the beautiful words of the ninety-first Psalm: "He shall give his angels charge over thee, . . . they shall bear thee up in their hands." I heard as in a dream the expression of mortal mind, "Did you hear that crash? She came down on her head." They brought her back to me and put her on my lap, perfectly conscious, scarcely soiled, and presenting no appearance of injury, only very white. We rode about twenty minutes longer, and when my husband lifted her from the car she insisted on walking home, a distance of one long block. I saw no bruise on the body except two small spots on each side of one of the elbows. She slept peacefully, and only seemed to suffer from a scene of the shock for a couple of days, which manifested itself in inability to retain food. She said there seemed the first night to be a large lump at the back of the head. I did not look for anything, and she said the lump was gone before she slept the first night, and there was no sense of soreness.

I should like to add that after the first expression of fright from the occupants of the car, which was full of people, the calmness was remarkable, and when we got out several remarks were made, "She is all right;" "Just see her walk." I have seen the conductor several times since and he calls it a miracle.

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