Over four years ago, while waiting for a train on the platform of an elevated railway, I was struck by a fast moving train, thrown to the platform, picked up unconscious, and taken to a hospital. The verdict given was that I might pass on. My sister asked a Christian Science practitioner to help me. The work was taken up immediately, and in less than an hour I spoke her name; but ten days had passed before I knew anything had happened. When consciousness returned I wondered where I was. The words "Christian Science" came to me, and the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation, as given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (pp. 16, 17), was gone over carefully. Then I began to sing to myself that wonderful hymn written by Mrs. Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 389; Poems, p. 4):
"O gentle presence, peace and joy and
power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting
hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing to-night."
A few minutes later my sister came into the room and I said to her: "I have just awakened. Where am I?" She then told me about the accident.
