Testimony of Healing January 25, 1964 Issue

My work in the construction...

Case M. Rutledge

My work in the construction industry has generally been connected with the erection of tall office buildings. Whether working on upper floors on open steel framing or in deep excavations for foundations, I have always found at least a few moments available during the day for prayerful protective work, for knowing that as a spiritual idea man is actually in the divine Mind, God, at all times and that there are no hazards in God's kingdom. Under so-called accident conditions, however, there is sometimes little or no time for conscious mental work.

A few years ago, while working on a twenty-one story office building, I was standing in the street next to the outside construction hoist, waiting to go up into the building. With me were several guests who were on a tour of the project. Suddenly someone shouted, "Watch out!" I knew something must be falling, but not knowing where it was in the air, I did not dare look up.

I immediately cleared my thinking as much as possible, particularly of fear, and waited for the still small voice of God to guide me. Suddenly something made me step to one side, and as I did so, a piece of lumber brushed my coat sleeve and fell harmlessly to the pavement. As I moved, my guests had also moved, making a clear opening for the falling object. I learned later that the piece of lumber had fallen from the seventeenth floor. In that case of emergency, there were a few seconds of warning in which to turn to God for protection.

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