Testimony of Healing June 25, 1910 Issue

Christian Science has been in our home only a short...

H. L. Mann with contributions from Elizabeth C. Burchard

Christian Science has been in our home only a short while, but so much has been done for us all that I am glad to tell of it, hoping thereby to encourage others who may be looking for the truth that makes men free. In April, 1908, a serious accident occurred to me, and though I then understood but little of the teachings of Christian Science, I had seen so much of its wonderful healing power that my faith was unbounded, and I turned to it as a sure haven from all the ills that come to mortals. I was working in a gravel-pit when an embankment of earth caved in, striking me in the back and throwing me about five feet. My entire body, with the exception of my head and hands, was covered with the earth. When I was lifted out I could not move myself from my shoulders down, and there was every evidence of serious injuries. The men who brought me home said I would be a cripple for life, and my suffering was extreme. I had my wife telephone to a Christian Science practitioner, and after the first treatment the pain was gone; in one week I was up, and in three weeks I was back at my work.

I am as stout and strong a man as ever, and my gratitude for this healing, and for many other blessings which have come to me through Christian Science, can never be expressed in words.—H. L. Mann, Dallas, Tex.

In the past I have given my testimony to the healing power of Christian Science, but have never told of my first healing, twenty-four years ago. I had passed through two operations, the first of which was considered a sufficient reason for my constant suffering, although it had promised to bring me health; but the injuries resulting from it were so complex that the spine was permanently affected. The physician, who was a member of the same church in which my husband was an elder, was conscientious and most kind. He tried everything to relieve my suffering, but at last said that he knew of nothing that would help me in medicine or surgery; that I must use my Christian fortitude, and do the best I could. As sleep at times was only gained by opiates, he advised a very limited use of them, and also recommended a third operation; but I had had enough of that remedy. We moved upon a farm for my husband's health, as he had lung trouble, and that year was one of constant suffering in mind and body. It seemed so dark at times that I prayed for death, but my teaching had been against self-destruction or I might have been tempted to seek rest in death. I now wonder how Christians can ever believe that God, infinite Life, could be so powerless to help us as it then seemed.

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