Testimony of Healing December 13, 1900 Issue

Broken Bone Quickly Healed

N. M. D. with contributions from Charles H. Spurgeon

In October, 1897, a middle-aged man fell from an appletree, and was carried to his home by a doctor who was driving by. Examination showed a rib broken and the sternum fractured. The doctor set the bones and left him. The man expressed his desire to have Christian Science treatment, as he was suffering greatly, and it was given. He had no severe pain after the treatment, and slept well that night. Next day the kind-hearted physician came and said the bones were in proper place, pulse good, temperature normal, no inflammation or swelling. He said to the patient, "You will be on your back ten days if you do well, then you can sit up some, but you will not be able to go to work for three weeks."

When the healer went to see him the next day his wife told her that he would have his way, and sit up to have his bed arranged. The next day he repeated this to have a new mattress placed. Then, at the healer's suggestion that it certainly could not harm him to remain quietly in his bed a few days, even if he could be sitting up, he remained there two nights and a day, but on the fifth day after the fall, sat in a chair nearly all day. On the sixth he walked about most of the time. On the day the good doctor thought he might sit up a little, he walked a mile or more, and two days later he walked two miles. He resumed his duties as gardener, using shovel and wheelbarrow, four days later, which made it the sixteenth day after the fall. He said to the Christian Scientist, "You have healed me of my sickness and of my sins, and money cannot repay you."—N. M. D., Boston, Mass.

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