A Recent experience served as a stepping-stone to show me more clearly the value of our periodicals. While we were driving through the country over an icy road which was considered very dangerous, a passage from our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 124), "Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of Mind," was voiced to destroy the fear that seemed to be trying to enter the thoughts of both my husband and myself. After voicing this, we saw that nothing could separate God's child from ever present Life.
Not long afterwards the car skidded to the side of the road and rolled over, landing in a four-foot ditch, bottom side up. Our first thoughts and words spoken after the car had turned over were, "We are all right;" and with this declaration came the thought that the truth removes all that is offensive (see Science and Health, p. 463); and then a testimony given in the Christian Science Sentinel by one who had been wonderfully delivered from the Washington theater disaster was recalled by us. Deliverance was so clearly seen that, looking up, I saw the door and opened it. One foot was still fastened in the wreckage, but with a little effort it became disengaged from the Oxford shoe I was wearing, and I crawled out from under the car entirely free from injury. Both my husband and the friend riding with us were also uninjured.
With this experience came the glorious realization that Daniel did not retard his progression by wondering why he passed through the experience in the lions' den, and that it was my privilege also to rejoice in the omnipotence of God.
