Our hearts are so full of love and gratitude to God for...

S. J. Farmer

Our hearts are so full of love and gratitude to God for giving us our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who has made the Christ, Truth, understandable to this age.

Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 201), "The best sermon ever preached is Truth practised and demonstrated by the destruction of sin, sickness, and death." So I should like to tell how we proved the omnipotence of God at the time of an automobile accident. As I felt the brakes go on and saw that collision was inevitable, I put myself in God's care; and as a result I felt no jar and did not hear the crash, neither did I experience any sense of fear.

I awoke on the operating table in a hospital, to which I had immediately been conveyed, with the same sense of protection and the closeness of God; and I saw a Christian Science practitioner, whom my husband had called after the accident, standing by. A great sense of peace, that "peace of God, which passeth all understanding," was with me, and I clung to "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468). I knew that matter had no life to give, nor to take; therefore, there was nothing to fear; that there was no substance, no intelligence, in matter; that it could not tell me of pain, for "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation" (ibid.).

One jaw was broken in two places, with a small piece of loose bone between the break which the surgeon said would not knit but would break through. In spite of all the predictions to the contrary, the bone knitted together perfectly, for we held closely to Mrs. Eddy's statement in Science and Health (p. 124), "Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of Mind."

There was also laceration of the face so severe that the jaw bone was exposed, and the surgeon considered grafting flesh from my arm, which, however, was not done.

I was informed that I would be in excruciating agony for twenty-four hours, and must have an opiate administered every hour. This was not done either, as I experienced no pain whatsoever; neither, so I was informed, did my temperature or pulse change from normal. The surgeon said he could not understand why I had had no pain.

The accident happened on a Tuesday; and on Saturday I left the hospital for our dear Sanatorium at Chestnut Hill, where I stayed until Wednesday, and then left for our home in New Hampshire. The scar now is only a tiny red line, which is rapidly disappearing.

The so-called laws of materia medica were proved null and void in this experience; and instead of feeling as though I had been through an accident, I felt as though I had been standing with head bowed and sandals off in the very presence of God, having had such great proof of His allness. "I am the Lord, and there is none else." These and the words of our beloved Master stood out in my thought: "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." "Ye believe in God, believe also in me." Thus was the Christ-healing demonstrated through Christian Science.—(Mrs.) Gertrude S. J. Farmer, Brookline, Massachusetts.

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