Although I have been a student of Christian Science but seven months, I recently had a most interesting experience of the power of Truth.
I was one of the marshals in our Labor Day exercises here, and the procession was almost ready to form, when I mounted my horse. He was a driving horse, loaned by a friend, and only ridden occasionally. The stable man had placed a severe Mexican bit in his mouth, unknown to me, and the first time I pulled up on the reins he began backing, and before I could realize any danger, he backed over a wagon tongue, and fell, with me under him. I was rendered unconscious, and the animal, which was quite a large one, struggled almost to his feet three or four times, only to get his legs entangled with the wagon pole, and again fall upon my prostrate body. He finally succeeded in getting up, and I was carried into a drugstore and a physician called. He felt my pulse, and placed his ear to my heart, and led the onlookers to understand that I was dangerously injured. He ordered an ambulance to carry me to the hospital.
Meantime, several of our church members had been notified, and they did all they could for me. Before the ambulance arrived I came to, partly, and began to realize that no injury can come to one who places his trust in God. I found that a Christian Science friend was near, and I felt safe. The doctor had at least twenty feet of bandages around my head, and I could not see how bad I was injured.
