Testimony of Healing May 24, 1913 Issue

I am so grateful for the help received through reading...

Thomas J. Curran with contributions from Belle M. Curran

I am so grateful for the help received through reading the testimonies in the Sentinel that I am impelled to send my own, with the loving hope that seekers for the truth may be helped thereby. Although I had many opportunities to look into Christian Science during a period of twelve years, yet I refused to listen to its claims until the summer of 1910. I was termed a broad-minded man by my acquaintances, but I now look back over those years and see how very narrow I was. Having once become interested, however, I made an earnest effort to hold my thought receptive to the truth, with the result that to a large degree I gradually overcame many weaknesses, and particularly that awful sense of fear which enslaves so many mortals.

The greatest test I have had of the mastery of fear was given the night of Sept. 14, 1911. Living in an isolated mining-camp in New Mexico, where my home was located in a deep and narrow canyon, a sudden cloudburst of unusual severity quickly flooded the gorge. I had left my home to assist a neighbor whose house was in danger, and was returning with him to my house, when I was swept from my feet and thrown into a torrent of blackness, muddy water, rock, and timbers, and was carried at racing speed down the canyon, and to all human or material sense certain destruction awaited me. My first thought, as I was swept forward, was that God is All-in-all, and as I was carried hither and thither I held tenaciously to this thought, when finally, grasping the stump of a tree, I audibly declared "the scientific statement of being," given on page 468 of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. My thought was perfectly clear, and there was an entire absence of fear. While holding to the stump I was struck on the shoulder by a huge log, around which I threw my arm, and almost at the same instant something crashed against the stump, seriously injuring my hand and compelling me to let go, so that I was again seemingly at the mercy of that fearful torrent. I was carried several hundred feet and dashed into a barbed wire fence, to which I clung until recovered sufficient strength to lift myself to my feet, when by the aid of the fence and the flashes of lightning to guide me, I got my freedom and hastened to my house. When I drew near my home I saw, in a flash of lightning, that it had been destroyed, and upon entering a vacant house next to mine I found my wife, who had been rescued by neighbors at great risk to themselves. Neither of us knew that the other had been caught. My wife, who had a better knowledge of Science that I, had also applied it, and had a seemingly miraculous escape. Our friend and neighbor, however, was carried down the canyon a distance of two and one half miles, where his body was found the following morning.

Although dreadfully cut and bruised and exposed to the wet and cold, neither my wife nor I suffered any harmful effects. My wounds were all healed without the aid of materia medica, and although our material loss was considerable, I was really grateful to have been able to demonstrate so clearly the mastery of Truth over error. Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to God for my rescue, also to Mrs. Eddy and all those who are engaged in spreading this gospel of Truth and Love, and my earnest prayer and desire is that I may so live as to attest the fruits of Christian Science, which has come into the world to help us in every time of need.—Thomas J. Curran, Los Angeles, Cal.

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