Testimony of Healing January 22, 1927 Issue

It is with a great sense of gratitude that I testify to the...

Gertrude S. McCalmont

It is with a great sense of gratitude that I testify to the power of Christian Science as a preventive agency when danger threatens, as well as a curative power when calamity is actually upon us. During a year of constant travel in foreign countries there was ample proof of its efficacy in both of these emergencies.

At one time on the shores of Piræus, when a storm at sea was so great that it was decreed impossible for the passengers to return to the ship that night, harbored as it was far out at sea, and return to Athens was necessary, there was opportunity to prove that "with God all things are possible." A slight abatement of the storm permitted the sending out of one lighter from shore as a trial, carrying but ten passengers. I was one of the ten to make the trial, and it was again my privilege to prove that "one on God's side is a majority;" for even though hurled back again and again by the mountainous waves, and deluged with the water that swept the deck, while we gripped tightly the one pole that offered the only material support, each of the ten passengers was finally safely got on board our ship. Two more lighters were launched forth from Piræus on the same quest, but neither succeeded in reading the ship.

At another time, when by accident in time of storm I was hurled into the waters of the Bay of Naples, the understanding of God as my Life was sufficient to preserve me from any sense of fear. When I struck the water, thought was filled with just one word—God. In that one thought I was secure; for all I understood of Christian Science was back of it—God, the ever present and available power. In due course, though not able to swim or to help myself in any way, I was rescued from what seemed to be certain drowning and sustained no ill effect, nor had I lost consciousness.

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