Testimony of Healing June 27, 1903 Issue

My two boys, one nine and the other eleven, went out...

Amanda E. Lay

My two boys, one nine and the other eleven, went out nutting one day with a little neighbor boy. The oldest one, Earl, fell from a walnut tree about twenty feet high. He lay there as one dead. A man at work in a stone quarry on top of the hill, saw what had happened, and came at once to help them. The first thing he said was, "Why, he is dead." At this the little neighbor, not a Christian Scientist, ran home to his parents and said, "Earl fell from a tree and is dead;" but the youngest of my two boys, Clarence, stood right by his brother and said, "He is not dead, God is his life, and God can't die."

By the time a woman came and wanted to use camphor, but Clarence held his hands over Earl's face and said, "We are Christian Scientists, we don't use such stuff." Earl began to show symptoms of life, and the man stood him on his feet, then Clarence put his arms around him and led him home, about a mile and a half.

When they reached home, I was not there. My daughter and I had gone out for a ride. On our way a friend came out and stopped us and said that she had received a message through the telephone to stop me and tell me that Earl had broken his arm. I was protected with these words that came to me as a light instead of fear, "Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead Thou me on."

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