Testimony of Healing August 11, 1917 Issue

Several years ago my two little children accompanied the...

Corinne C. Sanderson

Several years ago my two little children accompanied the maid to a dentist's office, and while she was in the chair they played on a window seat on a level with the sill. The two year old boy pushed too hard upon the screen, which gave way, and he fell about fifteen feet to a cement sidewalk below. When the maid called me up and told me what had happened, it flashed through my mind that a short time previous I had declared the truth against any evil befalling the children. I stood firm upon my declaration, and calling a practitioner told her of the accident and the work done. I then went for the boy, who had been carried into a drug store, where the dentist and a physician were examining him. Upon completing the examination the physician told me that apparently no bones were broken, though the boy gave no sign of being conscious. He said he would tell me how to care for the child that night, but I assured him I knew what to do and then carried the boy home. In spite of his father's fears, he was around the next day, and rode over in a cart to that same drug store. The only sign of his fall was a large patch of skin missing from his temple, where he had struck.

Some time later an older daughter who was having a course in emergencies in school, catechized me as to what I would do in case one of the children were to take a dose of poison. I told her that we had a better cure than the antidotes she mentioned, and I mentally declared the promise given by the Master, "If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them." We were having some decorating done at the time, and the next evening this same girl found the baby eating a piece of white lead putty. She brought it to me and wanted to know if it was poison. Immediately I remembered having declared the truth and felt no fear, but when I found the baby in a high fever in the night I telephoned to a practitioner, who said to call her up again in an hour. In the mean time my husband remarked, "You know that lead causes convulsions." I had not known but when I called the practitioner the second time I told her of his fear. Before another hour the child was less feverish, and we went to sleep. In the morning he was as well as ever.

At another time, seeing a touring car slow down to let my two year old child cross the street, I declared protection for my family from accidents. The next day our daughter, while roller skating with two other girls, was bumped into by an automobile, which was going slowly, and was dragged twenty feet across the car tracks. When the automobile came to a standstill she crawled out from behind. She refused a ride home, and stopped to help one of her friends who had fainted at the sight of the accident. Three men who were near by considered her escape nothing less than a miracle.

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