Many who find it hard to wait patiently for an hour or so in an automobile may be interested in our experience. We spent seven days and seven nights in our car trapped in a terrific northern blizzard with the temperature around zero.
Taking advantage of the Easter vacation in 1926 we had started out in a touring car with winter curtains, to spend two days at a cottage. No trouble was anticipated, as the snow was entirely gone, the weather fine, and our route reported passable to our destination, a distance of fourteen miles from West Branch, Michigan. About nine miles out, a soft place in the road stalled us. We worked on the car until dark to no avail. There were no houses on this road, so we decided to remain in the car until morning, expecting the road would be frozen and we could go on. Plenty of blankets taken made a fairly comfortable bed.
At ten o'clock that night it began to snow and blow, and as we were on what is called the plains, there was no protection from the approaching blizzard; but we knew whence our protection came. At times it seemed impossible for the car to stand, but we audibly declared we were on the Rock, Christ, Truth, which could not be moved. In the morning the car was snowed in completely. It was impossible to walk, the snow was so deep and the blizzard still raging. There were no signs of the road in any direction. Many arguments presented themselves, but we tried to know the truth as each appeared. We were grateful to have learned, through the study of Christian Science, that "heat and cold are products of mortal mind," as Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 374). Every day we read our Lesson-Sermon, given in the Christian Science Quarterly, and during the week we read Science and Health from cover to cover, also a large part of the New Testament.
