Testimony of Healing July 3, 1915 Issue

I offer the following testimony in gratitude for benefits...

William H. Engle

I offer the following testimony in gratitude for benefits received through Christian Science, and in the hope that it may encourage others in their journey from sense to Soul. The entrance to our home is up a flight of thirteen concrete steps, with one turn near the bottom. One morning I tripped on the top step and fell forward head first to the bottom. I landed with my head next to the last step and under my body, my feet toward the street, evidently having turned completely over.

To mortal sense I was quite badly hurt, but as soon as I was able to pull myself together I declared the truth to the best of my understanding, repeating the "scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468). It then occurred to me that I had broken my thermos bottle (I was carrying my lunch), and it was necessary to remove it quickly in order to save my lunch. As I did not wish to leave the bottle on the sidewalk and my car was already due, I rose, ran up the thirteen steps and two flights of stairs to the upper story as fast as I had ever gone before, left the bottle in the kitchen, and ran down again and out to my car. After leaving the car I had to walk fourteen blocks. If there was any sense of pain from the time I started up-stairs until I reached the office, it was so slight as to be unworthy of mention, and I returned home at night under the same pleasant conditions.

The thought came to me that under similar circumstances in the past, I would have had a sense of soreness and lameness the next day, and I went right to work to deny this possibility. I rested comfortably that night, with the exception that for a time I perspired very freely, but next morning I got up and was around as usual, with practically no sense of discomfort. I am very thankful to God for this wonderful truth, and grateful to our dear Leader for revealing it to us.

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