"Oh Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth" (Isa. 25:1). God has done so much for me through Christian Science that I feel I must praise Him through one of our periodicals in the hope that another who may be suffering from a long-held fear such as I had may be helped as I was.
Before my birth, my father was returning home late one evening, and two men hiding behind the trees on the lawn attempted to get money from him. The attempt failed; but my mother was badly frightened, and I grew up with an intense fear, which had been impressed on me by my mother's experience.
From the time I can first remember, I often awakened screaming with fright because I had dreamed of two men near me. In my dream I would attempt to run away; but after the first trial, I seemed to lose the power of movement, and so I took to screaming. Someone would come upstairs to quiet me, but no one ever told me of a loving God who was protecting me from all harm.
