Testimony of Healing December 21, 1940 Issue

I should like to share a wonderful proof of God's care,...

IRENE EBERLE with contributions from OLIVER WM. EBERLE

I should like to share a wonderful proof of God's care, and I trust it will bless all who read about it.

On January 21, 1939, my son went to do a good turn for a friend who is a Christian Scientist. This friend's husband being out of town, my son had been going every morning about half past five or six o'clock to take the horses out for a run and do the necessary chores, getting back home about noon. That morning, about eleven o'clock, my friend called me on the telephone, saying a horse had come home without a rider. She seemed very much disturbed, but I assured her I was not afraid. I said that, in reality, the boy was God's perfect child, and I could trust in Him. She said she would call me again, so I went back to the table where I had been studying when she telephoned. The first and last verses of Hymn No. 205 in the Christian Science Hymnal, which begins, "O for a faith that will not shrink," kept going through my thought. Great assurance came to me, and then the words of our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, came as if spoken (Science and Health, p. 424), "Under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection." I looked up the word "accidents" in the Concordance and I found the statement (ibid.), "Accidents are unknown to God." I reasoned that if God does not know accidents, I could not know them either.

My friend called again and said: "Don't you think you had better come out here? Oliver has been hurt very badly. The horse slipped and fell, throwing him on a rocky road. He was picked up unconscious and has not regained consciousness." The people who picked him up had taken him into their own home. They were not Scientists, and had been trying to get a doctor. Some friends drove me about twelve miles to where he was. As I rode I kept singing hymns from our Hymnal. When we arrived, my friend met me at the entrance of the grounds and said, "They all want to send Oliver to the hospital." I kept declaring, There is no accident where God is and God is everywhere. When we entered the house the doctor said that when he first examined the boy's eyes, they were sightless. He went on to tell me that there was no hope, for the boy had a double compound fracture of the skull and concussion of the brain; and he finished by saying, "Your religion may help sometimes, but this is a case for man." But divine Love spoke to me through our Leader's words (ibid., p. 231), "What God cannot do, man need not attempt."

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

Out of the gratitude that is in my heart for the proof of...