Testimony of Healing March 13, 1920 Issue

During the past seven years I have been able to testify...

Elizabeth G. Myers with contributions from Dorothy Vennebaker Brando

During the past seven years I have been able to testify many times to the comforting proofs of God's care as demonstrated in Christian Science, but within the past six months we have had an experience in our immediate family which is of so convincing a nature that it can neither be explained away nor dismissed with the oft-repeated, "Oh, that might have happened anyway."

Last June my young married daughter, while standing before a gas grate, caught the back of her clothing afire and most seriously burned her back from her shoulders to her knees, as well as the fingers of her right hand, with which she endeavored to unbutton her apron and which were very badly roasted. She was obliged to run down the long hall of her apartment to her bedroom where she seized a large comforter and dashed into the dining room, handing it to the Jap boy who was using the vacuum cleaner, and who had not heard her cries for help. He finally extinguished the flames, but not until her burns had become very deep in places and covered more than one third of her body. She and her little sister who was present turned instantly to God for help, the little one telephoning for a Christian Science practitioner and both of them declaring the truth audibly. Within the hour she was entirely free from pain, and ate a bowl of bread and milk soon afterwards, and that first night she awakened but once asking for a drink of water.

I arrived the next morning, and could scarcely believe it much of an accident when I saw their cheerful faces and heard their funny version of the affair, but when my daughter arose and I saw her back I was terror stricken. That she was alive was beyond belief, and when I realized that she was not in pain, I knew then that a power was at work of which I had had only a glimpse.

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