Testimony of Healing March 15, 1913 Issue

It is with a heart overflowing with love and gratitude to...

Mittle M. Angel with contributions from C. W. Seeber, Emma French

It is with a heart overflowing with love and gratitude to God that I write this testimony. On the 28th of June, 1911, my son, aged seventeen, while riding his bicycle, came in contact with an automobile going in the opposite direction. He was knocked from his wheel and thrown about fifteen feet. Both legs were broken, and an internal injury of a seemingly serious nature was sustained, there being a puncture of the bowels on the right side. The flesh was badly lacerated on different parts of the body, one eye terribly injured, besides many other bad cuts and bruises on the head and other parts of the body.

He was picked up by a gentleman and placed in another automobile, the one that had been the cause of the accident being too badly damaged to be of any service. Though in a semiconscious state, he knew enough to tell the gentleman to take him home; but finding our home to be next door to a hospital, he was carried there, no one knowing that we were Christian Scientists and that I would be opposed to having him placed there. I was sent for, and I found my son still in a semiconscious state, surrounded by nurses; and a physician who had followed the boy to the hospital was examining him as to the extent of the injuries and had assumed charge of the case.

As soon as I could collect my thoughts, I telephoned to a Christian Science practitioner, asking her to begin treatment at once, at the same time explaining how it happened that my son was in the hospital, and assuring her that as soon as possible I would have him taken home. Then when I asked that my son be taken to my home, the physician and nurses protested, saying that it would not be wise to move him, as he was seriously if not fatally injured; and rather than raise any disturbance I submitted.

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