Testimony of Healing October 11, 1919 Issue

Christian Science has sustained me through many varying...

Martha L. H. Candler

Christian Science has sustained me through many varying experiences, and at the same time it is giving me a wholesome and sane outlook on life. Within the past few months it has again delivered and preserved me under circumstances that were, to say the least, remarkable.

One morning, in the center of the city, I was struck upon the forehead and knocked down by a falling arc light, which cut its way to the bone in several places. Upon being picked up, my first conscious thought was a rebuke to the moans escaping, knowing that there was in reality no pain and nothing to moan about. Then, finding myself supported by a man and a woman, I was upheld by the protecting thought that the man and woman of God's creating are ever present and ever helpful; and I felt so glad to find that the truth about God and man, which Mrs. Eddy labored so faithfully and well to demonstrate and teach, was striving for the right of way in my thought.

When we reached the waiting place where some of my coworkers were assembled, the lady with me called my daughter over the telephone and asked her to get the help of a Christian Science practitioner whom I named. A taxi was then secured and I was taken to see the practitioner for a few minutes, and afterwards to a hospital to have the wounds dressed. All through the surgical work Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of the close of the twenty-third psalm (Science and Health, p. 578), "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [Love] for ever," ran like a golden thread through my thought. When I learned later that the practitioner was with my daughters in the waiting room of the sanatorium while I was in the operating room, I understood even better that pæan of praise for the steadying force of everlasting Love.

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