Testimony of Healing April 29, 1905 Issue

My only son was very badly burned in the following...

Adelaide C. Leffell

My only son was very badly burned in the following manner. On the Fourth of July, 1903. he went to a children's party, and a boy asked him to take care of a handful of tablets, such as children use in canes to make a loud noise. Not thinking of danger, he put them in his hip pocket, with a few matches. He slipped later on a polished floor, and fell on his back, which caused a terrific explosion, and his clothes caught on fire. He was brought home in a suffering, hysterical condition,—one leg burned from thigh to knee, almost to a crisp. A part of it seemed to be baked. I afterward learned that the tablets were composed of phosphorus, nitrate of potash, and sulphur. Physicians claimed that this combination at once entered and destroyed the tissues. This I know, that it produced the greatest agony imaginable, and that the cooked flesh in time decayed and sloughed away, leaving the nerves, arteries, ligaments, and muscles exposed. There was a most offensive odor during this period. In thirty minutes after the boy was brought home, he did not have any pain, and although he had to lie almost three months in one position, he suffered very little during his whole experience. The night he was brought home, he ate a hearty dinner, after he had been treated. His appetite was good, he was cheerful, patient, and slept well all the time.

It took months for this limb to fill out, as it was burned so badly and so much tissue seemingly destroyed. When he could stand by the bed. the injured leg was much shorter than the other, on account of hardened ligaments and sore muscles. He had to use crutches for months, and had many ups and downs, but truth was finally victorious, and the leg straightened and filled out. There was a large area to be covered, and while the healing was going on, the boy learned many needful lessons. He never doubted God for a moment. No matter what influence or argument was used, he never wanted material remedies. We did not have a doctor, but we had a Christian Science practitioner who had been a medical physician before coming into Science. He bandaged him and was very kind.

Everybody expressed so much love to the dear boy, that it has caused him to know that Christian Science is a religion of love, and he now lives in its atmosphere and is a Scientist. He had never known anything about drugs, as we have looked to God for our healing ever since he can remember. While I had treated him often before, he did not grasp the spiritual understanding or reflect happiness and love; now, all that is changed. He is fleshier, healthier, and more active than I ever knew him to be. He is fourteen years old. From the time of the burn until he was healed, was ten months.

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