Testimony of Healing June 7, 1913 Issue

We have received many blessings in Christian Science,...

J. W. E. Gilhespy

We have received many blessings in Christian Science, and the following experience meant much to me as a proof of the ever-presence of divine aid. One day more than a year ago, my little daughter, at that time about eleven months old, fell from her carriage to the concrete floor. I heard the child's scream, but it brought no sense of perturbation, although I had been studying Science and Health for a few months only; but every thought of Truth and Love which I had gleaned during that short time seemed at that moment of need to enfold my being as a banner, and to free my consciousness from all sense of accident and discord. I knew that God does not permit the mutilation or injury of His little ones, and I was comforted. A fellow Scientist was staying with us at the time, and my wife rushed to him with the child for treatment, and then came to me in a state of great fear and mental disturbance; but this condition was destroyed almost instantaneously, and replaced by a sense of assurance so complete that she returned to her household duties without finding it even necessary to inquire how the child was faring. The baby was at that moment seated on my friend's knee, laughing with joy at the ticking of a big watch. There was no scratch or mark on her, no sign of tears, no fear, no memory of that accident, and when we left the house for a walk a few minutes later, she was again playing as before. May this simple testimony bring to those who read it the wonderful sense of God's nearness and protection which the experience brought to me.

My wife had been lame from early childhood. While a baby her hip had been badly injured, and was imperfectly set As she grew, the deformity increased, and the growth of her right leg was impeded. On reaching womanhood one limb was some three or four inches shorter than the other, and a doctor stated, on examination, that the hip-joint was completely abnormal. The words he used were, so far as I can remember, that "a false joint had formed." After we became interested in Christian Science, my wife wrote to a practitioner, asking for absent treatment, and the next morning she came to me with a look of radiant happiness. For the first time in her memory she was able to stand upright and plant both feet flat on the ground. What a marvelous release from the bondage of a lifetime, and what happiness it was to be able to discard the unsightly boot which had been used to lengthen the limb artificially! This cure was not completed immediately, but progress has been steady, until at the present time her walk is normal, and it is only on rare occasions that a slight limp manifests itself; and this I know will shortly disappear entirely.

One Sunday morning I awoke in great pain and with a high temperature. I was unwilling to submit to the sense of illness, so got up, and after calling up a Christian Science practitioner on the telephone and asking for absent treatment, I went down to the office. I undertook to do some work which demanded my attention, but the effort required was tremendous, and the conditions had seemingly become so aggravated by the time I reached home again that I was compelled to take to my bed. I felt myself in a high fever, and the pain in my head and body became so intense that toward evening I asked my wife to telephone to the practitioner again. All that evening and night I tossed about in my bed in semidelirium, till just as day was dawning I fell asleep, and thanks to Truth, I was at my office desk at nine in the morning perfectly fit for my day's work.

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