"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." This truth has been proved many times in my experience, and has never failed once since I became interested in Christian Science.
I desire to hand on an experience in which the power of Truth was demonstrated, in the hope that it will help other seekers for the right way. Demonstration is proof of understanding. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 323) Mrs. Eddy says, "We must recollect that Truth is demonstrable when understood, and that good is not understood until demonstrated." My little daughter, three years old, and I were standing in front of a garage, where we were waiting for a street car. While standing there, the child turned around and called to me to listen for the echo of her voice. I saw an automobile coming up the hill, but thought nothing of it, as it gave no sign of stopping or turning in at the garage. But it did turn in, and too late to get the child out of the way. The driver saw us, and knew that he could not avoid hitting one or the other of us; so he turned, but just enough to strike the pillar of the garage door, also striking the child and knocking her down, a wheel passing over her right leg, tearing off her clothes and leaving the print of the tire down her back. The force of the contact threw the car back into the street.
I ran to the child, noticing that her knee seemed flat and that she lay perfectly still, with not a sound. I picked her up declaring that God is Life, and the Life of man; that she was perfectly safe and resting in the arms of divine Love, and therefore there was nothing to fear. I walked back home, a distance of about one block, holding to the truth of being, as taught in Christian Science. As we reached the door of our home, she opened her eyes and said, "Mama, my leg is not broken, and I know it is not." I told her it could not be, because God is All. The suggestion of resentment came, to be put out as no part of man; and also the thought of a careless man, which God had not made and therefore did not exist. Then indifference presented itself, a quality which is not of God, therefore could not be expressed by man, the spiritual image and likeness of God.
