Testimony of Healing September 7, 1912 Issue

Nearly two years ago a serious accident befell my son

Laura Gerahty

Nearly two years ago a serious accident befell my son. By a slip of his motor-bicycle he was thrown in front of a two-wheeled cart, which went over his back; the horse also kicked him in the mouth, cutting his face severely. His tongue was terribly bitten between his teeth, and the loss of blood was excessive. The accident occurred close by the home of Christian Scientists who were intimate friends of ours, and into whose house, happily, the boy, quite unconscious, was immediately carried, thus avoiding the alternative of the local hospital. One of these friends, who fortunately was at home, immediately began his healing work for the injured boy before the outward appearances of most serious injuries had begun to subside. The police, however, arrived and insisted upon a doctor being called immediately; but beyond the stitching together of the torn lips, the case was left entirely in the hands of the Christian Scientist friend.

By the time I arrived at the house, probably forty minutes later, my son had been removed from the floor of the hall where he was first carried, washed, and bandaged round the disfigured parts of his face and head, and laid upon a couch. His first thought on regaining consciousness was a joy and thankfulness unspeakable that the face bending over him was that of a well-known Christian Science friend. He afterward expressed his feeling as one of great content, after the fearful turmoil of his confused thought, mingled with noise and expressions of horror. After an hour or two, with the work done in Christian Science and ordinary manual assistance, he was able to walk up-stairs and was put into bed. For some days he lay there with what were pronounced double fractures in the shoulder, besides cuts and bruises, totally unable to speak on account of the condition of the tongue, but from the first hour able to write on paper or use the finger alphabet to convey his wants or his thoughts.

All this time there was no pain, only the discomfort from continually lying on his back, and a tight feeling across his chest and back which caused him to write one day: "I think a cart must have gone over my chest, I can feel the tracks." Until then he had not known the seriousness of the accident. After four days' silence, friends and relatives began to talk about his recovery; but remarks were made about Christian Scientists having no doctors, and the probability that, as they did nothing, the injury to his tongue would prove so serious he would never speak again. This fear came to my ears, through a sympathetic but skeptical relative. That same evening I told the practitioner of the fear which was going round, and worked to destroy in myself the fear that had so suddenly been aroused by these remarks.

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