Testimony of Healing July 16, 2018 Issue

Protected from assault

Marjorie Thornton

I was fifteen years old and home in Chicago for Christmas vacation from boarding school. As I was walking in the dark one night, someone grabbed my right arm and stuck something against my back, and I heard a man’s voice say, “Do what I say, or I will kill you.”

The truths we learn in the Christian Science Sunday School never leave us! I am sure I remembered that we are never out of God’s care as I calmly checked the passing traffic to see if there might be anyone who noticed I needed help. There was no one. Next, I checked along the sidewalk behind us, but there was no one else around. Then this beautiful angel message came to me: “My only hope is to see God in him.” How could a young teenager have such a healing thought in such a threatening situation?

I’d been taught in Sunday School that the Bible says, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him” (Genesis 1:27), and that meant every single one of us was created by God, good. I believe learning the truth that we are all created by God kept me from panic and opened my thoughts to the beautiful angel message that I needed to see godliness in this man.

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