It is with a deep sense of gratitude to God that I wish...

Elizabeth Pickrill

It is with a deep sense of gratitude to God that I wish to tell how Christian Science helped me in a great emergency. My little niece, aged nine years, who had gone upstairs, had passed the first floor and was going up the next flight when I heard the sound of a heavy fall, and then all was still. When I went to her I found she had fallen over the banisters into the hall below, about twenty feet. She lay there quite still, with no apparent sign of life, but I at once declared the truth that our life is in God, not in matter, and that it could not be destroyed; then I quickly took her up to my room, and worked as I had never worked before in Science. I realized that there can be no unconsciousness in the divine Mind, that "man is not material: he is spiritual" (Science and Health, p. 468).

Then the thought came to me that she was not my own child, that her parents were not Scientists, and that the law requires a doctor for children. I felt that I was quite willing to have one, but I realized and declared that God is the only physician, and that He would heal her. In a short time she opened her eyes, and I knew I need not send for any one. As consciousness returned, I began to wonder what was the condition of the little body lying on my knees; and at once, with the strongest assurance, the words of the psalmist came to me: "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken;" and I felt this was true. Before very long she was attacked by nausea, and I could tell by her movements not only that no bones were broken but that it did not hurt her to move. Very soon, however, she could repeat with me the words of the hymn,—

Everlasting arms of Love
Are beneath, around, above;

Also from the 91st Psalm, "He shall give his angels charge over thee."

For about an hour she lay in my arms, gradually getting better. Then I took her to bed, and going with her as she walked to her room those words of thanksgiving of the Master came into my mind: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me." But I was yet to see how perfectly that work had been done, for when I undressed her, although she has fallen from what seemed such a great height, there was not even one spot on her body to mark an injury. No headache followed, only occasional nausea until the following morning, and the she was quite herself again. It seemed as though we have only to trust and stand aside, and we shall see God's perfect work.

I feel that it is only by a life consecrated to God that I can show my gratitude to our dear Leader, who has taught us how to understand and apply this great truth.

Miss Elizabeth Pickrill, Eastbourne, England.

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