Testimony of Healing July 6, 1946 Issue

I am most grateful for having...

Doris L. Gross

I am most grateful for having been brought up in a home where Christian Science is daily studied and practiced, and where the use of material remedies is never even considered.

I am grateful for protection, in the summer of 1938, during a motor trip which covered much of the United States and part of Canada. When the trip was first mentioned, suggestions of accident and other dangers presented themselves. I am glad that I saw them immediately as error, having no place in the consciousness of any person who might feel concern for my safety. All these suggestions were overcome by the time I left home, and the entire group, of which I was the only Christian Scientist, experienced health and harmony in an unusual degree throughout the trip.

On only one occasion did evil threaten to intrude. We were driving that morning in one of the national parks in the West. The road was hardly wide enough for passing, and led up the mountain in a series of switchbacks, with corners so sharp that we could never see very far ahead. Suddenly the suggestion came. "You are going to crash!" Reaching out for the first truth I could think of, I started repeating to myself the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation, as Mrs. Eddy has given it to us on pages 16 and 17 in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." When I got to the line, "Thy kingdom is come," I looked out of the car window and saw the deep blue of the sky, the puffy white clouds, the soft green of the treetops, and sunlight seeming to flood the whole world. The sense of God's presence was so strong that I did not even finish the prayer, but continued to enjoy the scenery as I had been doing before.

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