Testimony of Healing August 27, 1910 Issue

I was first helped by Christian Science in 1903, and ever...

Dorothy Maude

I was first helped by Christian Science in 1903, and ever since then Truth has met all my needs and given me untold happiness. I would like to tell how it helped me in a fire. One morning, some time ago, I heard a woman scream, and I ran down the road to find the thatched roof of a cottage blazing. The woman told me she was not sure that the children were out, so I went in to see, but found only the father of the family, upstairs, hurriedly collecting his belongings, and I stayed to help him. Other people soon appeared, and the man and I passed the things down to them. It was getting very hot, and I had suggested we had better go, when they shouted from outside that we must come at once, as the roof was falling in; but we found it was impossible to get down, as the stairs were entirely blocked.

Then, instead of fear, there came to me an absolute certain sense of God's presence, and of our safety in His care. It was some few minutes before the way was cleared, and then we ran downstairs. The roof fell in with a crash almost directly after. Shortly after this a heavy scaffolding-pole fell on my head, and for the moment half stunned me. Then, almost immediately, I began to declare, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health, p. 468). Then the intense pain and sickness were gone. In about ten minutes I was able to go on, helping to carry furniture and pass buckets, till at the end of two hours we had saved one cottage and emptied the other, which was burned to the ground. Though there was a seemingly deep dent in my head, and for two or three days there was a stiff feeling up my spine, I felt no more sickness and very little pain.

I can never be thankful enough for Christian Science, and to Mrs.' Eddy for giving it to us.

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