Testimony of Healing July 18, 1914 Issue

I am indeed grateful to Christian Science for the many...

Morgan K. Banning

I am indeed grateful to Christian Science for the many blessings that come to us through a better understanding of our Father-Mother God and man as His image. I am especially thankful for a demonstration that was made for me in June, 1912. I was taking a lay-off from my regular work as locomotive engineer to attend the graduating exercises of the University of Utah and the Salt Lake high school, as I had a son graduating from each of the schools. As there was a day between the two events I went up to Ogden on some business. Returning at noon, I wished to reach home as soon as possible, and I made ready to get off at a point opposite my home, where the train slowed down at a signal tower. I had a valise in my left hand, and with the other on the handrail of the coach, when I reached this point I sprang off. I did not immediately let go, as I hoped to regain a better balance, but instead this made matters worse, and I was dragged a short distance. I fell face downward and very close to the rails. To keep from being dragged under the train I was trying to rise, when the steps of the following coach struck my hip and back, rolling me over several times. The pain in my back was intense and sickening, but I declared the truth, contending that there are no accidents in Mind and that God's man cannot be injured.

After the rest of the train had passed me, I got up, and accomplished the walk of two blocks. At first it seemed that every step would be the last, but as I kept on declaring the truth, I was able to walk easier as I neared home. Arriving there, I found my wife was away, and feeling very faint, I went to the telephone and asked for help from a Christian Science practitioner. I could only say, "Please help me to know that there are no accidents in Truth." She said that she would take up treatment immediately.

When my family returned home some hours later, I was able by a supreme effort to get up from the couch where I had been lying. At sight of me my wife wanted to know what had happened and said I looked very ill. I told her of my experience, and she examined my back, finding it very much swollen and discolored. The skin had been torn off for a space as large as the palm of my hand. She washed and cleansed the wound, and put a soft piece of old linen over it. She also called the practitioner, told her the nature of the injury, and asked her to come to see me, which she did. The next evening I was able to dress and go to the graduating exercises, and to sit for two hours without experiencing much pain. I could walk but very slowly, and getting up and down was very painful. In a few days the sore began to heal, but a big hard lump formed and then seemed to change to water. There was very little discharge from the wound, and this watery enlargement was gradually absorbed. In eight days I returned to work, still somewhat stiff, but entirely free from pain. The healing continued, and in about three weeks only a red spot remained where the new skin had formed, and I was entirely well.

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