Testimony of Healing March 4, 1905 Issue

"Imagined he was not badly hurt...

Joseph G. Robinson

"Imagined he was not badly hurt. Christian Scientist refuses to have a doctor after falling thirty—three feet. . . . when able to speak, preferred to depend on his imagination for his recovery, and do away with the services of a physician." —Union Sun, New York, May 19, 1904. [Extract from newspaper report of the following case.—Ed.]

Owing every breath I draw to Christian Science, and never having been grateful enough before to send in my testimony, I now wish to give this experience. While working on a frame dwelling—house at Olcott Beach, my test came to prove Christian Science to be what I had for ten years been saying it was. I was on a scaffold about twentyfour or five from the ground when I slipped and fell backward to the ground, striking square on my back. A young man who was passing saw me fall and ran to my assistance. When he reached me I said, "I am not hurt, I do not want any help." I tried to raise myself, but fell flat on my back again. The young man said, "O, no, you're not hurt, you only have a broken back." With that he ran to a store to telephone for a doctor, and a lady who is a Christian Scientist was there. Some one said, "Who is hurt?" and the young man replied, "It's Mr. Robinson, our foreman." The lady then came and requested that I should be taken to her house across the street, and this was done.

My wife and another Scientist were telephoned for, it being a distance of twelve miles to Lockport, where I live. It was two hours before they could arrive and, meanwhile, the brave little woman shut the door to all mortal eyes and tongues, and was with me alone, reading from Science and Health and keeping up steady treatment. I kept saying, "Fight on, the victory is ours." When my wife and the Scientist from Lockport arrived I was on my back and could not move hand or foot, while it seemed as though I could not keep still for the pain. They all went bravely to work for me, and I kept up a steady realization of the truth for myself. In two hours more I was in a peaceful sleep, and though asleep I kept up my treatment, so they say. In an hour more I was able to be moved and, with the help of my strong wife and the practitioner, I stood up and was prepared for bed, and rested fairly well that night.

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