Testimony of Healing February 3, 1923 Issue

I should like to express the deep sense of gratitude I...

Bessie M. James

I should like to express the deep sense of gratitude I have felt at a beautiful healing of injuries to my face, caused by an accident. In falling on my face, the chin and left cheek were cut, and very deeply grazed and bruised. Gravel rash was on cheek and chin. It appeared that I must have fallen on a stone, as there were cuts just beyond the left eyebrow and below the eye, which had itself escaped injury, although it was greatly bloodshot; and there was a bad bruise extending from the bridge of my nose over the entire upper portion of that side of the head. When I recovered consciousness I was being conveyed to my home; and this to me was beautiful. I was not even taken to a chemist's shop, let alone a hospital, but straight home, where I could have Christian Science treatment. I was very grateful both for that and for the dear loving-kindness of the lady in whose father's house our flat was situated. Knowing I was a Christian Scientist, she did not press material remedies upon me, but gently bathed my face to remove some of the dirt so deeply ground in; and then she went for a Christian Science practitioner, who came at ten-thiry.

My first thought was for my church. As Second Reader I had to be at the desk on Sunday; and to a remark to this effect the practitioner replied, "If it is right for you to be there, you will be." I knew this, and clung fast to the truth. Yet Sunday was but four days later! To material sense it seemed impossible for me to appear in public in less than a fortnight. The gravel dust seemed so deep, the bruise so black, and the cut on the chin looked too bad to be healed in four days! Yet I longed to be in my place; and I felt it was right for me to be there. It was not impossible, however; for "with God all things are possible." By Saturday the chin was free from the gravel and covered with dry, white skin, which peeled off by five o'clock on Sunday; and the same with the cheek. Though the rest of the injuries were not completely healed, they were sufficiently so to enable me to take my place at the desk for our only service on Sunday evening; and in a very few days the healing was complete.

Words cannot adequately express the gratitude I felt for this, and for the great kindness and love I received from first to last, not only from friends, but from comparative and total strangers. Never before had I realized so clearly that God's love is everywhere. I hope this testimony may help some other fellow-worker who is striving to demonstrate his or her ability to perform faithfully and regularly some duty in the field. Error tries in various and subtle ways to deprive us of this privilege; but if it is right, and if we are in earnest, God, divine Love, clears away all obstacles.

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