It is with a feeling of the deepest and most sincere gratitude that I wish to tell of an experience I had a year or two ago, which once more proved God's omniscience, omnipresence, and continuity. It was my privilege, while visiting at a cousin's home in the West, to read the Lesson-Sermons given in the Christian Science Quarterly, at her request, to my baby cousin, who attends the Christian Science Sunday School. Although only three years of age, she understood the Word of God and had demonstrated it. One day we finished with the ninety-first Psalm. Before leaving the room the child asked me to put a pair of my shoe trees in her slippers, which I did. While I was speaking to her mother she tried to remove one of them, one which had been broken. As she pulled at it, it let go and sprang back, striking her eye. The mother, a student of Christian Science, without looking at the eye, took the child to another room and audibly spoke the truth to the little one.
The mother and child sang "Shepherd, show me how to go" (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 397, 398; Poems, p. 14) . Although the little one sang it between sobs, the tears and sobs were quickly over, and the blood stopped. The sharp end of the shoe tree had cut her upper lid two ways, but God's Word was "quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword." Within eight minutes the child was out playing, happy in the realization that God is her Father, Mother, and her protection.
My family became interested in Christian Science about nineteen years ago, and we have since had no material help whatsoever. My father was cured of muscular rheumatism, although according to the doctors he could not live. I too was raised from what the doctors declared was my deathbed. Every day we have been protected and guided. I am indeed grateful for what God has done for me and mine, and for the privilege of attending the Christian Science Sunday School, which has always meant so much to me.
