Testimony of Healing September 24, 1938 Issue

Gratitude for the protection afforded me through Christian Science...

Norma Odile Newsom

Gratitude for the protection afforded me through Christian Science prompts me again to testify to its efficacy through this medium, and I should like to relate the following incidents, which occurred some time ago.

One evening, upon leaving a Christian Science lecture, from which I had gained much enlightenment, courage, inspiration, and a sense of joy and happiness, I had walked but a block when, in crossing the street, I stepped in front of a truck. As the brim of my hat obstructed my view I did not see the truck until it struck me, and the driver, not seeing me until I appeared directly in front of him, did not have an opportunity to retard the speed of his machine. I was struck with such force that I was thrown some distance before falling to the pavement, when I then rolled over several times. My head struck the pavement or the truck, and I was stunned for the moment. The usual crowd quickly gathered around me and I was picked up. I stood for a few minutes where I was until I had regained my balance. Several persons insisted that I should be taken to a hospital immediately, but I refused to go. There was some little argument about this, but I continued to refuse. I was soon able to get on a bus and go to my home in an adjoining city. Due to the force with which I was thrown, I should have been seriously injured, but as a matter of fact I experienced only slight bruises and a sprained back, which were healed within a few days through my understanding of Christian Science.

Mary Baker Eddy says on page 210 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" that "good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort." This statement was certainly proved true in my experience, for I had gained such inspiration and joy from the lecture I had just heard that my consciousness was filled with the truth, and since it was so filled, there was no room in my consciousness for a suggestion of accident or injury of any sort. Therefore, it was not really any part of my experience, although those around me who were unacquainted with Christian Science were believing that I must be injured. Fear has no power, no matter how many other individuals may be entertaining fear on our account.

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