Testimony of Healing April 21, 1923 Issue

About five years ago my little boy, three years old,...

Mary Eidsvik

About five years ago my little boy, three years old, while playing upstairs, fell from the very top of the stairway, striking his forehead on the corner of a hardwood rack containing table boards. His forehead was not cut, but there was a deep dent. He did not cry very much when I picked him up, but kept rolling his eyes. I carried him for a while, and he seemed to feel better and fell asleep. It was late in the day, so I put him to bed and he slept all night. The next morning he awoke and got up, but he had not been up very long before I noticed he seemed very ill. I clung to the truth the best I could; but as fear crept in I was not able to master it. I called a Christian Science friend for help, and she began treatment at once. I then called up my husband and told him of the condition of the child. When he came home the child was nearly unconscious, and it seemed very difficult for him to breathe. My husband became very much frightened, and suggested we call a doctor, which I did. When the doctor came he shook his head and asked if the boy had ever been healthy. I replied he had been as healthy as any one could be. The doctor thought the boy's head had been hurt internally from the fall, and seemed quite worried. When the doctor left my husband went with him, so that we could get the medicine prescribed, as soon as possible.

When they had been gone a while and I was holding the child in my lap, I picked up the Bible and, opening it, read, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death." When I had read those words a calm feeling came over me. I looked at the child, and it seemed as though he were breathing quite regularly and his face had a natural hue. He was sound asleep, so I laid him down again. When my husband came back with the medicine my boy was still asleep, and so we did not give him any. About an hour afterwards he awoke and sat up in bed and said: "Mamma, dress me. I am well." He got up and I dressed him; and I can truthfully say he did not have any after affects whatever. He played around the rest of the day.

I am very thankful to God for this healing. It was a proof to us that God alone is the healer. A short while after this I was healed of tonsillitis in two treatments. It is now six years since Christian Science was brought to me. The Bible has become a new revelation to me, and I can read it much more understandingly by the light received through the reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

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