Testimony of Healing April 17, 1920 Issue

I submit my testimony, which I trust will be as much...

O. L. Browning

I submit my testimony, which I trust will be as much help to others as previous testimonies have been to me. As Christian Scientists study the Lesson-Sermons and put into practice what they learn each day, they are building an ark for protection against the evil of this world, whether it presents itself in the form of limitation, cold, poor health, unkind feelings toward our fellow men, or any of the numerous so-called errors.

Recently the writer went through an experience that proved the protecting care of our heavenly Father over His children. My husband and I live on a ranch about forty-five miles from town. We left home about noon one day in our car to go to the near-by town for supplies, which we purchased; then went to a hotel for the night. On awakeing the next morning we found a heavy snowstorm was on, but as the roads had been so good in coming, we, as well as others, did not doubt reaching home in safety. We started about noon. When we had gone about fourteen miles from town and were on the coldest flat, where no one lived, with the snow blinding and our light not working, we found there was nothing to do but stay in our car until next morning, as the drifts were becoming more dangerous. My husband, knowing what a Montana blizzard meant, was full of fear, but different passages from the Bible and Science and Health would come to me and all fear would leave. We closed up the car as well as it could be done, but the wind was growing stronger all the time and it was getting colder.

I felt a wonderful peace and told my husband I was not afraid, I knew we would come out all right. But he said, "You do not know the Montana blizzards; you are not afraid because you do not know the danger." I answered, "God will protect us from all danger." Later my husband tramped a place for us to walk back and forth in. We walked for a while in the blinding wind and then I proposed going back to the car and taking a nap. He said, "You can sleep, but I will stay awake all night." I knew his fear was of freezing, but I finally prevailed on him to get into the car and rest. I knew we could sleep if we needed to, so we put our quilts over us in the seat, and leaned back. Then there came to my thought the words of one of our Leader's hymns (Poems, p. 4):—

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