Testimony of Healing July 16, 1910 Issue

One Sunday morning, after having been to church, where...

Bret Harris

One Sunday morning, after having been to church, where I listened to the reading of the Lesson-Sermon entitled "Love," I was startled by an uproar in the back part of the house. On going into the kitchen, I found that my six-year-old niece had been bitten in the face by a bulldog, and that the blood was streaming from the wounds, while her mother was in a state of frenzy from fear and excitement. The neighbors were also greatly excited, and loud in their denunciations of the dog. Nevertheless, so conscious was I of the presence of divine Love, that I was not disturbed by the scene, and in minute or two from the time I entered the room quiet reigned.

At this juncture a neighbor came running to the kitchen door, offering me a bottle and saying, "This will take the poison out." I stepped to the door of an adjoining room, where the mother, who is not a Scientist, was standing, and asked whether she wanted Christian Science, a physician, or the remedy which the lady offered. She replied: "Oh, I don't know! I will leave it to you!" I said: "Very well," and going back to the kitchen door where the kind-hearted lady was waiting, I said to her, "I thank you very much, but we are Christian Scientists,—that is, I am trying to be,—and I prefer to rely wholly on Science." At this the lady drew back, as though she feared she had given offense; but I reassured her, with thanks for her kindness.

When she had gone back into the yard, I said to the child, "Come on, dear, and uncle will give you a treatment." We went hand in hand into another room, and when we were seated I said to her: "We love Bob [the dog that had bitten her], don't we?" She said, "Why, yes!" At this I began to treat the child, and almost immediately she said, "O uncle, look here! I'm all right now." As I looked, she was opening and closing her mouth to show me that she was all right. Then she said, "Can I go now, uncle?" and I replied, "Yes, you may go now." She went running to her mamma in great glee, exclaiming, "O mamma, I'm all right now!" I went on with the treatment, however, and it took me half an hour to dispel the flood of suggestions which poured in upon me. The child was instantly healed, and a big bruise on her cheek vanished into its native nothingness, in perfect demonstration of these words of our Leader, "If the Scientist reaches his patient through divine Love, the healing work will be accomplished at one visit." A hole made in the child's cheek by one of the dog's teeth did not entirely disappear for four days, during which time I continued the treatments.

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