For the past twenty-five years I...

Doris Westwood Wolsey

For the past twenty-five years I have been a student of Christian Science. During this time I have read testimonies in our periodicals and heard them given at Wednesday evening meetings; and sometimes when a testimony has seemed miraculous, I have wondered what I should do under similar circumstances.

Over a year ago I had an opportunity to prove what I should do, for one day, while I was riding along a country road in an automobile, a tire blew out. The driver lost control of the car, and we crashed into a stone bridge.

Instantly I began to declare the ever-presence of God. In a few minutes some passing motorists stopped, helped us into their car, and drove us, at my request, thirty miles to my home. When we arrived, a Christian Science practitioner was called and help was lovingly given. Some members of the family feared disfiguration, and felt that I should go to a surgeon, because my jaw was cut all the way through. When the practitioner was told of this, he assured me that all things are possible to God, and he expressed the thought that I did not need to make any hasty decision about going to a doctor.

There kept coming to me part of a verse from Psalms 37, "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him," and a verse of Hymn No. 359 in our Hymnal:

Trust the Eternal when the shadows gather,
When joys of daylight seem so like a
dream;
God the unchanging pities like a father;
Trust on and wait, the daystar yet shall
gleam.

I felt sure no medical aid would be necessary. However, again next morning fear was expressed, and an appointment was made to see a doctor. The practitioner reminded me of Mrs. Eddy's words, where she says on page 480 of Science and Health, "There is no place where God is not." Consecrated work was done during the next two hours, with the result that when the medical examination was made, the inside of the jaw was completely joined together, and no surgical assistance was regarded as necessary.

I shall never cease to be grateful for this healing and for the help Christian Science has been in our home in the overcoming of children's diseases and erroneous characteristics. I have also experienced a painless childbirth.

I am grateful to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for discovering and founding Christian Science, for all the activities afforded us, for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, and for class instruction.—(Mrs.) Doris Westwood Wolsey, Winnetka, Illinois.

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