I have thought for a long time that I would write and tell you how wonderfully Christian Science sustained me in a trying hour. I was in the cyclone at Kirksville, Mo., April 27, 1899. A friend who was visiting me, also a Scientist, and my son, nineteen years of age, were in the house with me when the storm came. We had little or no warning; I heard the roaring, but hardly had time to realize what it was before it was upon us. My friend and I both declared the allness of God aloud. The house was all blown away, and we were carried a distance of about three blocks, where we struck the ground so lightly as hardly to feel the shock. When the storm came my friend and I stood closely side by side, my son being in another room. When it was over we were lying shoulder to shoulder while my son was about the same distance from us that he was in the house. A large piece of timber out of a barn was lying across us. I seemed to be pretty badly hurt, as the timber fell across my breast. I seemed to be crushed to one side and terribly bruised, and a rib seemed to be dislocated and was pressing sharply against the skin. In about two hours my husband succeeded in getting a carriage in which I rode a distance of twelve blocks to my sister's rooms. She did not know that I was badly injured, until she sat down to read from Science and Health, when I asked them to repeat the Lord's Prayer aloud with me. She said something about finding the place, but I said, "Let's say it now." My sister sent to St. Louis that night for help for me. I had absent treatment for about two weeks, and have not a scar remaining. The rib went back in place without material aid. In leaning back one day against some pillows, there was a snap and a severe pain. I got better very fast after that. One remarkable thing I must mention is, that the storm seemed to divide at our house, the worse part going northwest, while the part we were in went northeast. We were blown out one side, as it were, while the part of the house that was blown northwest was, with all its contents, blown entirely away; not even pieces remaining. Every one said they did not see how we escaped, as five of my nearest neighbors were killed and several died soon after. But I know that the Truth as revealed in Science and Health is what saved me. I cried unto the Lord and he heard me, and delivered me. I could not tell half the blessings I have received and am receiving every day through Christian Science. I am a subscriber to both Journal and Sentinel, and they are grand helps. They always contain something that is just what I need. I am very grateful for the Truth that makes it possible for us to have all these wonderful blessings.
Kirksville, Mo.
