I feel I must not longer delay in writing to the Journal the beautiful demonstration we had of God's love and protecting care on last Christmas eve.
We had decorated and lighted our tree as usual, and the room was full of guests, when suddenly my little boy (four years old) slipped and fell from the piano stool. I was not in the room at the time, but I was afterwards told that he fell "twisted," with his head seemingly under his body. Those present said it was simply horrible. A gentleman, not a Scientist, picked him up, and as I came hurriedly into the room, assured me that he had only had a slight fall. Afterwards he told his wife, "I lied, and that was all there was to it. It was the most horrible fall I ever saw. I tell you I was glad when he made a little moan. I know I was as white as he was." I took the child in my arms, and went to my room. He was delirious, and could not hold up his head. It rolled around on his shoulders like a ball, and when I tried to hold him he slipped through my arms like a bag of water. Then fear overcame me for a minute, and I said to the only other Scientist present, "Oh, let us get help;" but she said, "Just wait a minute," and the sight of her working set me to work also to prove what God is to us in an hour of trial. The boy only moaned at first, but soon he began to talk deliriously and ask why he couldn't have a Christmas tree, and said the other children had one. We continued our treatment and he finally became conscious. I carried him around and tried to interest him, but we felt that the demonstration was not quite complete and my friend (not a regular practitioner) asked to take him back to my room and treat him.
After that he seemed all right. He wanted to go to sleep, so I took him into the front room and he said, "Good night to all." Then during the night, while he slept peacefully, error would suggest that there would be after effects from this fall. This was met by the emphatic declaration that there are no accidents in Truth, that all is under God's unerring direction. Hence, as he had never had an accident, there could no after effects from what never had occurred.
