Testimony of Healing July 30, 1921 Issue

I have had such a clear proof of the protective power of...

Grace Elliott with contributions from C. D. Keeler

I have had such a clear proof of the protective power of Truth and the nothingness of evil that I feel I should share it with others. While traveling I had to wait two hours at a junction, and desiring to leave the station for a few minutes I left my traveling bag and a smaller shopping bag in the care of a lady who was sitting in the depot. When I returned, the shopping bag was over the black traveling bag apparently just as I had left them. When my train was called I picked up the bags and found that the traveling bag was not mine, being a shabbier and larger one than mine. The lady in whose care I had left them had continued her journey on another road, and as the train that I was to take was the last one to leave that night, I came home, leaving the strange bag at the station. In the morning the station agent at my home wired to the junction, but they could find no trace of my bag either at the station or on the trains. No other inquiries were made.

The only means of identification in the bag was a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy which had my mother's name and address in it. I felt that any one reading that book could not keep what belonged to another, and I knew that "with God all things are possible," and continued to hold steadfastly to the truth. In two weeks' time my mother received a letter from a hotel at the junction stating that a bag had been left there and that a book had been found in it inscribed with her name. We were surprised to hear from the hotel as I had not had my bag there, nor had I made any inquiry of the management. I knew no one in the junction, as I had only been there awaiting train connections. I wrote to the hotel identifying the things and telling them how my loss had occurred. Two days later, I received my bag with everything in it, thus proving the omnipotence of Truth, which means far more than the mere return of the material things. I am indeed grateful for all the blessings that have come to me during the time I have been studying Christian Science.

(Miss) Grace Elliott, Lowville, New York.

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