Testimony of Healing March 24, 1945 Issue

One Sunday afternoon several...

John R. Peterson

One Sunday afternoon several years ago, my brother and I were standing on the lower part of a large wooden scaffolding. Suddenly there was a faint rumble, which grew into a roar as the platform on which we were standing collapsed and we were hurled to the ground about twenty-five or thirty feet below, just as I fell I looked up and saw a large piece of structure falling directly upon us. It was a flat section of heavy planking, reinforced with two-by-twelve-inch timbers, weighing several tons. In that fraction of a second the clear realization came to me that God is Life.

Humanly speaking, there seemed to be no way out. We were lying on a flat surface and another flat surface weighing several tons was falling directly upon us. However, Mrs. Eddy demonstrated to the world in a gratifying measure that matter is merely mortal thought made manifest, and further that God's spiritual idea, man, is the indestructible expression of divine Life, of divine Truth. This Truth cannot be changed by mortal thinking; and as Mrs. Eddy has said in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 210): "Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are 'safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited."

The falling planks and timbers splintered and broke over my body, pinning me in so tightly that I could not move more than an inch or two in any direction. I was completely untouched and unharmed, and not even shaken up by the fall.

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