Early one morning my son went to cut corn with the corn harvester and tractor. As lie was approaching the field of corn he went down a hill. The grass, being wet with dew, was slippery, and the tractor brakes were not effective in stopping the tractor, which slipped until it turned sideways and then upset, throwing my son to the ground directly in front of one of the big tractor wheels. When the tractor reached him, it stopped, held back by the corn harvester; and there was enough room for him to crawl away completely unharmed.
Before he had started for this work and until his return to tell what had happened, I had been reading the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly and establishing the day in harmony for myself and my home by realizing that man, made in God's image and likeness, is exempt from sin, disease, and death. In clearing my thought of materiality I had used the definition of God given in the Glossary of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 465): "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth. Love." The protection my son experienced proves the truth of Mrs. Eddy's teaching that those upon whom our good thoughts rest are benefited.
Another healing for which I am very grateful came after I had stepped on a nail that was sticking up in a board. I became frightened when I could not release my foot; so I called for assistance from the man who was helping with the farm work. He assisted in freeing my foot from the board and informed me that the nail had gone into my foot about an inch. Much to his surprise,
