I should like to share a wonderful proof of God's care,...

IRENE EBERLE with contributions from OLIVER WM. EBERLE

I should like to share a wonderful proof of God's care, and I trust it will bless all who read about it.

On January 21, 1939, my son went to do a good turn for a friend who is a Christian Scientist. This friend's husband being out of town, my son had been going every morning about half past five or six o'clock to take the horses out for a run and do the necessary chores, getting back home about noon. That morning, about eleven o'clock, my friend called me on the telephone, saying a horse had come home without a rider. She seemed very much disturbed, but I assured her I was not afraid. I said that, in reality, the boy was God's perfect child, and I could trust in Him. She said she would call me again, so I went back to the table where I had been studying when she telephoned. The first and last verses of Hymn No. 205 in the Christian Science Hymnal, which begins, "O for a faith that will not shrink," kept going through my thought. Great assurance came to me, and then the words of our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, came as if spoken (Science and Health, p. 424), "Under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection." I looked up the word "accidents" in the Concordance and I found the statement (ibid.), "Accidents are unknown to God." I reasoned that if God does not know accidents, I could not know them either.

My friend called again and said: "Don't you think you had better come out here? Oliver has been hurt very badly. The horse slipped and fell, throwing him on a rocky road. He was picked up unconscious and has not regained consciousness." The people who picked him up had taken him into their own home. They were not Scientists, and had been trying to get a doctor. Some friends drove me about twelve miles to where he was. As I rode I kept singing hymns from our Hymnal. When we arrived, my friend met me at the entrance of the grounds and said, "They all want to send Oliver to the hospital." I kept declaring, There is no accident where God is and God is everywhere. When we entered the house the doctor said that when he first examined the boy's eyes, they were sightless. He went on to tell me that there was no hope, for the boy had a double compound fracture of the skull and concussion of the brain; and he finished by saying, "Your religion may help sometimes, but this is a case for man." But divine Love spoke to me through our Leader's words (ibid., p. 231), "What God cannot do, man need not attempt."

My husband was called on the telephone while I stayed with my son and kept voicing the truth to him. After a while he spoke to me. When I talked to my husband he said, "Whatever he wants to do, you do, and I will back you up." Again I went to my son and talked the truth to him, for mortal mind was saying he was unconscious, but after a while he said, "Mother, I want to go home." We sent for an ambulance, dismissed the doctor, and took him home. When we undressed him at home, one of his shoulders was out of place and he had cuts in one knee and one elbow. Several times he seemed to be slipping, but I kept telling him that God was his Life and to hold to this fact. We worked day and night from Saturday to Wednesday morning, when, about five o'clock, he got up out of bed. All was well with him.

Exactly one week after the accident he went out to thank the people who had befriended him by taking him into their home. All the lady could say was that it was a miracle. He was well and happy, and he did not even have a scab on his head. The healing was complete. Surely we have proved our beloved Leader's words, "Accidents are unknown to God"!—(Mrs.) IRENE EBERLE, University City, Missouri.

I should like to add my gratitude and appreciation for the beautiful healing of which my mother has written in this testimony, when Christian Science once again proved the nothingness of death.

For the past fifteen years we have depended upon Christian Science for our health, supply, happiness, and everything. Mrs. Eddy states on page 494 of Science and Health, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need." This truth has been proved times too numerous to mention. For the many healings I have had I am deeply grateful.

I am a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, University City, Missouri, and also a member of The Mother Church.—OLIVER WM. EBERLE.

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