I am writing this testimony in gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, hoping it may help someone in need.
My parents became interested in this Science when I was about two years of age, through the healing of a very close friend. Shortly after this I was healed of a severe case of whooping cough. Because we lived a long distance from where Christian Science services were held, we seldom attended; but the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly were read on Sundays, and the whole family was requested to listen.
Many were the instances of healing and protection. An outstanding case of divine protection was witnessed when I was a small girl. My little brother and I were playing in the yard when our father was chasing a young horse. My brother was in line to be trampled, and it seemed that he certainly would be, but the horse dropped on his knees by the child. Our father said that when he saw what was taking place, he declared that the same Mind which governed the child governed the horse also. Since I witnessed this, it has always been clear to me that we are protected when we trust in God. At another time I was protected when my older brother and I were riding the horses home from the field after Father had finished his day's work. The horses started before Father had the gate closed, and when we tried to stop them they began to trot, then to run. Although the horse I was riding had a fly net on, I managed to hold to the hames, get on one side of him, and slip to the ground unhurt as he ran. My brother was thrown into a ditch and was unconscious when Father picked him up and carried him home, about half a mile. By morning my brother was feeling as well as usual, and we all drove many miles to attend a fair.
