Testimony of Healing March 14, 1931 Issue

I should like to give thanks for the many benefits and...

Frances C. Jennings

I should like to give thanks for the many benefits and healings which my family and I have experienced through Christian Science. They have been varied and convincing, each one bringing improvement in character and more understanding.

While I was poking around in a barn to get some needed things, the telephone bell rang and I hurried to the entrance. In my haste I did not notice a rake lying before me and stepped on the teeth, bringing the handle with terrific force against my arm. It hurt a great deal, but I thought the pain would subside in a minute. However, it continued, and the arm was helpless. I walked on slowly to the side of the house, turning over in my thought the truth about God and man. When I reached the dining room window I stood still and declared with the emphasis born of conviction, "If these things are true, and I know they are, then right now I have the right to a complete manifestation of that which is." The pain ceased instantly, and in its place was a most beautiful sense of uplift, impossible to describe.

About twenty minutes later I chanced to look down at my arm, for the first time since the incident occurred, and found it very much out of shape at the elbow. This was a further proof to me that our real spiritual-self is "outside of all material selfhood," as Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 476), for I had used the arm quite freely since the pain left. I did not look at the arm again until two hours later, when it was perfectly normal in appearance. Shortly afterward I had occasion to have a Christian Science nurse in to care for the children. She had had medical training, so I spoke to her of my experience, and upon examining the arm she said it appeared to have been broken just at the elbow joint.

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