"I am the Lord, and there is none...

Herbert Bror Granholm

"I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me" (Isa. 45:5). It is with much gratitude that I relate the following experiences which have proved to me the ever-presence of God and His healing power.

Some years ago, when yet a young student of Christian Science, I was visiting a farm within bicycling distance from a place where I was spending a week's vacation. The owner of the farm had a very large dog which had been subjected to severe mistreatment by its former owners. When I approached the dog and lifted my hand to pat it on the head, the chained animal quickly lunged forward and bit me very severely on the leg.

Being young in the study of Christian Science, I did not think of calling for help from a Christian Science practitioner, but I did have the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I still recall the first words that met my eyes when I opened it (p. 124): "Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of Mind." The appropriateness of this statement was not so apparent to me at that time as it has become during succeeding years, but that sentence stayed with me throughout the healing, which was completed about two months later. Although much tissue had to grow back, the leg became entirely normal.

Another incident which illustrates the ever-presence of God and which has remained with me occurred at the ocean beach where my wife, my wife's sister, and I were vacationing. I had been swimming in the ocean for about half an hour and had returned to the others on the beach for a rest. My wife and her sister then decided to go for a swim. My wife was at that time an inexperienced swimmer.

As they were wading out into the water, a distance of about seventy feet from where I was resting on the beach, something impelled me to arise and walk down towards the surf. As I did so I noticed with alarm that a very strong undertow had begun to pull my wife, her sister, and a younger girl who had joined them into deep water. The phenomenon taking place in that locality was what is called a sea puss and had caused the loss of a number of lives through drowning.

I quickly made my way out to where the three were struggling against the current. My wife's sister was able to swim away from the reach of the undertow unaided, but the other two were being drawn into the whirlpool. Swimming with all my might, I was able to lift the young girl on top of the water and to push her away from the current so that she could swim back to the shore. By now, however, both my wife and I were being pulled under by the powerful suction. My wife, a student of Christian Science, kept declaring aloud: "God is All. God is All." After a very hard struggle we were free from the dragging suction and able to swim back towards the shore. I know that only our complete reliance on the allness of God saved us.

Every day I rejoice in the realization of man's oneness, or unity, with God, and I know that this conscious identification results in dominion over all things at all times, under any circumstances, everywhere. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and for the opportunities and privileges of membership in a branch church. Progress gained through class instruction and through the loving work of practitioners makes me realize that, as the Bible says (I John 1:3), "Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ."— Herbert Bror Granholm, Westfield, New Jersey.

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