When I was quite young in...

Garnet G. Doherty

When I was quite young in Christian Science, a woman asked me to care for her baby. Before going to her home I asked my ten-year-old son if he wished to go with me, as it was Saturday. He refused, saying that some boys wanted him to go roller skating with them. I was ready to leave with my little girl when I felt led to do protective work for the boy. This I did and then left, knowing that he was in God's care.

While I was bathing the baby who had been left in my charge, my son's name came to me so vividly that I knew something was happening to him. I immediately declared that I had left him in God's care and that nothing could harm him. Two more times his name came to me as though a voice had repeated it. The last time I vehemently said aloud, "He is in God's care, and nothing can harm him." Then I forgot about the incident.

When I returned home later, I found him sitting in a chair and apparently thinking earnestly. He said, "Mother, if I tell you something, will you take my skates away from me?" Recalling the incident I had experienced, I said, "Whatever you have gone through was a lesson to you; so I won't have to take them from you." He then told me that he and the other boys were playing "follow the leader," skating on the sidewalk and out into the street. He was the last in line, and while looking down the street in one direction, he was hit by a car coming from the other direction. The car threw him several feet, and when he landed on the pavement, the skates were off his shoes. The man who had driven the car wanted to take him to the hospital, but the boy said, "No. I am not hurt, and I will put my skates on and show you I am all right." He put the skates on and skated around, saying that he did not feel hurt at all anywhere. This did not satisfy the man, who finally persuaded him to be examined. They went to the hospital, where two doctors examined the boy and found only a very small bruise.

The next day the driver of the car came to see me and related the story to me, just as my son had done. He was filled with amazement and could not understand why the boy had not been injured, because of the way he had been hit; and he expressed his gratitude that the boy was all right. I have ever since been grateful for this instance of protection.

This same son, now past thirty, was also protected during World War II. At one time a hand grenade landed a little way from where he was standing; but it never went off, and the worst that happened to him was that the grenade splashed mud on him when it fell.

I have had many wonderful healings in Christian Science and am most grateful for all the good this Science is doing for the whole world.—(Mrs.) Garnet G. Doherty, Los Angeles, California.

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