Four years ago I had serious trouble with my arm

Four years ago I had serious trouble with my arm. I thought the trouble was rheumatic and tried to overcome my fear of heredity, but the alarming appearance did not abate. I then asked help of one of our Leader's students, and soon an abscess broke under my arm. For some time the condition was beyond description. After a few weeks Jesus' words came to me: "Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known." During the next day three people came and told me that they had heard I had a malignant disease which could never be healed. To each I declared the allness of Truth, and when I undressed at night there was nothing to care for, the wound was completely healed.

Two years later we were moving to another house, and as I was coming down the back stairs with my arms full of things I thought I would rest a moment on the railing, but it had been taken away to facilitate the moving, and I fell down the rest of the flight. I got up, but my knee seemed to be badly hurt. I sat down on the stair and declared the truth. Some one came, and I asked him to tell my husband that I was ready to go home. When he came I told him what had happened, so he asked for the team a few moments and took me with my parcels home. We told no one about it except my sister, who called while my husband was taking back the team. She got the Bible and Science and Health and together we read the Lesson. That relieved the intense pain and helped me to straighten my leg. The next day I was able to walk a little and to do some of my work. The second day I went to my sister's home for Thanksgiving dinner, using a cane in walking. It was indeed a day of thanksgiving, and my heart was filled with gratitude to God, the giver of all good, who is an ever-present help, and to our dear Leader, who has given us so precious a gift as "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" to interpret God's law to us. I found later that the injury had been even more serious in belief than I had at first supposed, but it never troubled me. I am confident that without the help of Christian Science I would not be walking naturally to-day. Each day I find new reasons for gratitude to God and to our Leader for the protecting power of Christian Science. None of us can ever know the evils from which we are saved by this blessed truth.

I am indeed thankful that I was ready to listen to this voice of Truth when it first spoke to me, though I did not seek the Science for physical healing. I have never for one moment doubted the truth of Christian Science. Sometimes it has seemed to me that, like David, I must say, "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it."

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