Testimony of Healing January 5, 1899 Issue

In my early Science days, I was the manager when putting...

Thomas Phillips

In my early Science days, I was the manager when putting in a new stope for the purpose of bringing coal through. The timbers were four feet apart. One Saturday evening at quitting time we had about three feet of space, and the ground was frozen and quite safe. The following day it thawed some, and Monday morning I had the timbers ready to put in as soon as the three men would have the other foot of space. They had worked only a short time when the ground caved in, and so completely covered one man that it took the three of us fifteen minutes to get him out. The other men declared that the man was dead. I went to work with all the understanding I had to use the Truth as taught in Science and Health. It seemed quite a while before he began to breathe, at first feebly, then loudly, and finally so piercing was the noise that it drew the men from the old mine about one-fourth of a mile away. Of course, then all was confusion. The doctor came and said he could not live, but the man was able to work in a week.

About three months after this I was having an air shaft sunk. We were about fifteen feet down the shaft, when a large hickory club five feet long and as thick as a man's arm fell down and struck the man that was with me on the head. I took hold of him by his arms, placed him upright, his back against the side of the shaft, and all Scientists know what I did. To mortal sense this was the situation,—one man nearly killed, three scared, and one Christian Scientist half a mile from a house. I said, "Send down a bucket and a rope to tie this man safely, and get him out of here." Then I went up next. I took him by his arm, led him under a shade tree, and continued declaring the Truth. In half an hour he was at work again in that shaft. In some way the news of his getting hurt had gotten to his wife, and she and the neighbors came over to see why we had not taken him home. Suffice it to say, they were surprised.

Thomas Phillips, Brazil, Iowa.

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