Testimony of Healing March 25, 1916 Issue

In April, 1914, I was thrown from an automobile and...

Edith Davis Gurnee

In April, 1914, I was thrown from an automobile and rendered unconscious for some time. The first thing I heard was my little girl crying for me. I tried to open my eyes and get up, but could not. My father and another man helped me on to my feet, but my back hurt so that I could not walk alone. They assisted me to my cousin's house and my father telephoned to my husband, who immediately tried to communicate with a Christian Science practitioner fifty miles away. As he could not get a telephone message through, the central operator said she would send it as soon as possible. He then got a doctor, and when they reached me I was being carried out in a chair to another automobile, so that I could be taken home. When the doctor was shown where I fell he came around to me and said at first that my back was broken; when he learned that I had stood on my feet, he said it could not be possible that I had such a fall without breaking my back.

When I got home the doctor made an examination and said the end of the spine was badly injured. He told me that I would have to lie in bed four weeks without moving, and that my back would trouble me all my life. There were eighteen people in to see me that evening. Nearly every one knew of some one who had injured the spine and who always suffered from it afterward. They told my husband he must insist on the use of material remedies, as I did not realize my condition and therefore he should look after it.

The Christian Science practitioner did not get our message until the next day, and I suffered terribly until he began treatment. The doctor came again Monday of his own accord, and told me of some medicine to use, but I did not get it, as I knew that "what God cannot do, man need not attempt" (Science and Health, p. 231). The third day after the accident I was up for a short time, and in three weeks I was doing my own work again. My back never troubles me. I am thankful to God, also grateful to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for teaching this great truth.

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