Christian Science
Testimony
DIVINE
PROTECTION
. . . Christian Science has meant
more than words can express in rearing my children. They
attend Sunday school and are learning all the time to
demonstrate the truth for themselves. Several years ago I
passed through an experience which proved beyond all
possible doubt the absolute protection of divine Love. Our
little daughter, then three years and a half of age, one
Sunday wandered from our ranch in western Texas, which was
then our home. Search was begun about twenty minutes after
she disappeared, but nothing could be found to give us an
idea of which way she had gone. Help was summoned as rapidly
as possible in that sparsely settled country, and everything
was done that could be done to find the child, but three
days and three nights passed and in the meantime a terrible
rainstorm came. There was a little place in the sky where
the clouds seemed to part and it was perfectly clear.
Everyone who saw it said that right under that was where the
child would be found; and it proved true, for in a little
space about one fourth of a mile wide and just about that
long, it did not rain at all and the child was found safe
and sound. Although she had been without food for three days
and nights, she was able to walk and was normal in every
way. No human aid protected her from the wild cattle and
other wild animals, nor sustained her with food; no human
hand stayed the rain which was so heavy and cold that men
who were out in it became very chilled. God, divine Love,
was her only protection. At the time I seemed to be a
stranger in a strange land, for I knew no other Christian
Scientist within hundreds of miles.
Mrs. Eddy, in giving
Christian Science to the world, revealed this protecting
power of Truth and Love and it is as potent today as it was
in the days of old to protect those who seek the Father "in
spirit and in truth." . . .
Maud H. Murchison
Fort Worth, Texas
"Testimonies of
Healing"
The Christian Science Journal, October,
1919
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