Testimony of Healing May 13, 1905 Issue

Last spring, while working in the chemical laboratory of...

Dilworth R. Lupton

Last spring, while working in the chemical laboratory of The Sheffield Scientific at Yale University, I met with an accident which at the time seemed to be of a very serious nature. A bottle, holding oil of vitriol, concentrated nitric acid, and hot alcohol, exploded unexpectedly, covering my whole face with its contents, and almost blinding me. I washed it off as quickly as possible, declaring the truth mentally while doing so. A practitioner was immediately notified of the accident, and with his help and my own small understanding the work of healing began. My face seemed at the time as though it were being consumed by a terrific heat, and for a few minutes the pain was intense. In an hour, however, all sense of suffering had vanished. The next day the skin became dry as parchment and shrivelled up. Two days after that it began to peel off like so much paper, and within a week the condition of my face was normal again and without a scar. This healing, although not instantaneous, was so remarkably quick and complete that many of my college friends noticed it, and expressed their surprise that such a cure could be effected, especially without the application of any material remedy.

The experience emphasized in my mind the importance of meeting error immediately with the declaration of the real man's perfect harmony and his oneness with "God, the Giver of all good." This is but one of the many proofs I have had of the efficacy of Christian Science as a healing power, but higher, farther-reaching, and more satisfying than this physical healing has been the sense of peace and happiness which has succeeded it.

Dilworth R. Lupton, Pittsburg, Pa.

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