Testimony of Healing July 26, 1913 Issue

In the sixteen years that I have been in Christian Science...

George R. Steuart with contributions from Alice Bannister Steuart

In the sixteen years that I have been in Christian Science I have neglected to speak of my blessings through the Sentinel, but I now feel that I should tell of my manifold benefits and not hide my light under a bushel. In moving my family over a rough mountain road, a wheel dished on the lower side of the wagon and pitched us all over the side of the mountain. Our little girl of five had her arm severely injured at the elbow, and was otherwise badly bruised. A physician set the arm on the hillside while we were waiting for another conveyance, but it was after dark before I got a Christian Science practitioner by telephone, fifty miles away.

In the mean time we had driven several miles over a very rough road, and the child was suffering severely. She would sleep for a few minutes and awaken with a cry of fright and pain; but before I returned to the house from the telephone booth about a quarter of a mile away, where I had gone to explain the condition to the practitioner, the child was sound asleep and did not awaken until seven in the morning. She had no further pain or inconvenience from the arm or the bruises. The doctor came the next afternoon to put on the permanent splints, and to see if the arm had been properly set in the confusion and lack of convenience of the hillside the day before. He found that he could bend the arm to its fullest capacity and without any inconvenience to the child, and was very much delighted to announce that it was tied together. We of course realized that the tie had been made the night before.

In our home many ills have been overcome, including acute lung trouble, a serious heart affection, said to be organic, rupture, a dislocated shoulder, measles, whoopingcough, etc., also smallpox, with inflammatory rheumatism resulting from same, accidental poisoning, besides the usual burns and cuts of an active family of children,—all handled in Science. We have lived most of the time at a mine fifty miles from a city, and nearly all of the treatment has been given by ourselves or the work done by absent treatment, using the telephone for communication, and many of the healings have been instantaneous. It is surely superfluous to speak of our thankfulness, as our cup has been full and running over.—George R. Steuart, Alice, Col.

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