Testimony of Healing November 2, 1940 Issue

So much comfort and inspiration have come to me through...

MARY OLA WOODSON

So much comfort and inspiration have come to me through reading the testimonies in our periodicals that I feel impelled to express my gratitude for the manifold blessings that the study and application of Christian Science have brought into my experience. Over a period of about twenty-three years the blessed truth of Christian Science has ministered to the needs of our family in a most satisfying manner.

A very unusual experience was mine in September, 1938, when I arrived in Springfield, Massachusetts, on my way to Boston to attend an Association meeting. When we arrived at Springfield, the train passengers were told that it would be necessary to wait there for an indefinite period, because the bridges were washed away, and no trains or busses could go on to Boston until necessary repairs could be made. When it was learned that it was also impossible to reach Boston by plane, and it was seen that all material means had failed, thought was turned resolutely to God. While the people at the depot seemed to be filled with anxiety and commotion, I sat quietly alone, and commenced to realize that man, as the child of God, is held forever in His embrace. A realization of perfect peace and calm came to me.

A few hours later we were told that if the New York bus arrived at four o'clock we might take it, and, by changing at New Haven, could reach Boston by the shore line. Just as we were seated in this bus, a hurricane broke with all its fury. On my journey I had been reading an article in the Christian Science Sentinel which had amplified the thought that man can never, under any circumstances, be separated from God. I can truthfully say that never at any time, even in the quietness of my own home, had I felt more secure and conscious of God as caring for me than at that moment in the bus with the storm raging about us. Furthermore, there was not the least suggestion of uncertainty as to whether I had taken the right course in starting out in that bus. The words of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy (Science and Health, p. 293:21-23), were sublimely adequate. Seemingly insuramountable obstacles were overcome on our trip, and we arrived in Boston in ample time for the meeting.

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