Testimony of Healing December 31, 1932 Issue

It has been my privilege to have the help of Christian Science...

Maurice W. Hastie

It has been my privilege to have the help of Christian Science from birth. I attended the Christian Science Sunday School as a pupil for sixteen years and shortly after the age of twenty I reëntered as a teacher. I had come to the realization that for growth in grace there must be constant giving. Two years later it was my joy to have class instruction, for which I am very grateful. It quickened and stimulated my desire for deeper study in the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's works.

My physical and mental healings have been numerous, and the protection I have enjoyed from temptations and pitfalls are still more numerous. My gratitude for the latter is especially great. I had many of the so-called children's diseases, but I never suffered from them. I can thank my mother for seeking Christian Science help when the ailments were in the incipient stage, and most of them were very quickly overcome.

When I was a boy in school I fell from the limb of a tree and landed on an asphalt road beneath, striking my shoulder and head. A stranger passing telephoned for an ambulance and I was rushed to a hospital, unconscious. My mother was soon notified and she immediately secured the aid of a practitioner. The shoulder and head had been badly cut. The doctors thought I had a fractured skull and believed my condition too serious to permit an X-ray until the next day. That evening when my parents visited me I told them I felt perfectly well and strong. At that time the superintendent was showing a visitor around and came to me and asked how I felt. I replied that I thought I could walk out now. He said, "Oh, that would be impossible." Half an hour later my father secured my release and I walked out of the hospital. The healing was not quite complete at that time, but within eleven days all the marks of the accident had vanished and I was back to normal.

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