Testimony of Healing October 15, 1904 Issue

A testimony from London, Eng., given in the Sentinel,...

W. S. Morris, Jr.

A testimony from London, Eng., given in the Sentinel, of protection from hurt in the overturning of a motor cycle, leads me to send this testimony of God's loving care for His children. Shortly after coming into Christian Science five years ago, I was prompted to read the 91st Psalm every morning, and this practice has been faithfully adhered to from that time to this. As my understanding of the teachings of Christian Science has grown, the beauty and truth of the statements of this Psalm have become clearer to me, to such an extent that I have been able to realize God's loving protection on several needed occasions.

One morning about a year ago I was riding my bicycle on my way from home to the office. I was on the left side of the street, riding rapidly, and before the wind, which was blowing strongly, and this of course greatly accelerated my speed. As I approached a cross street I noticed a wagon coming towards me, and as I expected that the driver would either keep on his way or turn up the cross street, I made no effort to slacken my speed, but intended to pass to his right at the cross street; but just as I turned out to the right he did the same thing to the left, as it was his purpose to go down the cross street, and as I had not calculated on this move, it threw me directly in front of the horse's head, and for a moment it looked to me as if I would run right into one of the shafts. I bore hard on my right handle bar, which carried me at an oblique angle over the car track right under the horse's head, and at this moment the driver pulled up. Notwithstanding I had to take such a sharp turn, and this, too, over a car track, which most bicyclists know is very apt to cause the bicycle to "side slip," as our friend expressed it, and throw the rider, I did not fall, and regained balance instantly.

I thanked God then and do now for my escape from accident. It has enabled me to find a new and richer meaning in the familiar words, "There shall no evil befall thee. . . . For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."

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