Testimony of Healing January 21, 1922 Issue

For some time I have wished to express gratitude for...

Helen Bessmer

For some time I have wished to express gratitude for the many blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science. We have had many proofs of its healing power.

I am especially grateful for the healing of my son. While playing in the school gymnasium he fell and received a rather bad looking wound in the knee. The wound seemed to be healing nicely, until one afternoon the physical director asked to see it and applied a medical dressing. In a few days the wound became a discharging sore. I then asked a practitioner to work for the child, but the knee seemed to remain about the same, and in a few days a large bunch formed on the lower part of the abdomen and leg, preventing the boy from standing up straight, and he suffered severe pain. One morning I called the practitioner and suggested that a physician be called in accordance with the state law governing minors. I then told the child that we thought it best to have a doctor see him. He asked me to please give him until noon as he did not want a doctor and he would read Science and Health, to which I consented. In ten minutes he walked out of the room and said, "Mother, I am healed; just see me walk." I called' the practitioner and told her the work was done, the child was healed. That afternoon he went to school, the bunch having disappeared, and in a week there was not a break in the knee. Words fail to express my gratitude.

This same boy had his arm broken at the elbow. A doctor was called to set the bones, but found on taking an X-ray photograph that the bones were already in place. The arm was kept bandaged for four weeks but was not put into a cast, as I told the physician I did not think it was necessary. During that time he lost just one-half day from school and seldom complained of any inconvenience.

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