Testimony of Healing December 19, 1914 Issue

We often hear the question asked of Christian Scientists,...

Beatrice Varner

We often hear the question asked of Christian Scientists, "What of accidents,—can Christian Science help you then?" I should like to give the following testimony to show that an understanding of God's protecting power, gained through the study of Christian Science, does protect one in case of accident.

Some time ago, after an hour of earnest prayer, I was studying the Lesson-Sermon for the following Sunday, when I was so suddenly diverted from my study by a thought of accident in connection with my child, a boy of nine years, who was away from home with others of about his age, that I was impelled to do quick and earnest work. I immediately met the fear by declaring that there are no accidents in divine Mind, and after further mental work along this line I dismissed it from my thought with this passage from Psalms: "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."

About an hour later the boy came in, shivering with cold and dripping wet. I asked no questions, for I thought he had been wading and had fallen down. Later, when he had changed his wet clothing for dry and had opened a copy of Science and Health, he gave an exclamation of surprise and joy. I asked the reason, and he read aloud, "Man, reflecting God, cannot lose his individuality" (p. 337). Inquiring why this should hold such interest for him at this particular time, he said, "If it had not been for that I should have been drowned." Then I learned that at about the time I was thinking of him, he stepped off a ledge into water over six feet deep. He could not swim, and had never been in any such depth before. After going down he rose to the surface, and was carried about sixty feet down-stream, where he caught hold of a tree branch overhanging the water, and held there until his playmates put out a pole and pulled him ashore. He suffered in no way whatever from this experience and was as calm and fearless as a child could be.

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