In gratitude to God and to Mrs. Eddy I desire to submit...

In gratitude to God and to Mrs. Eddy I desire to submit a testimony of physical healings which I have experienced at various times during the past five years. Through the advice of a friend I was led to take up the study of Christian Science to see if there was hope in it to help a member of our family, who was then quite ill. At a later period the member referred to was healed, with the help of a practitioner, of what the doctors pronounced tuberculosis of the lungs in its worst stages.

Six weeks after becoming interested in Christian Science I met with a severe accident. I had occasion to go to the cellar; and there being an obstruction on one of the steps, I was thrown with great force to the ground floor, striking my chest in such a manner that I was rendered speechless, also dislocating one arm at the elbow, forcing a ring into one of my hands and lacerating it, dislocating the large toe of one foot, and spraining the muscles and ankle of the other. With great difficulty I was able to get to the landing. I at once worked in Science to realize man's perfection; and my arm was healed. In the same manner my toe became normal again. I then asked divine Love to guide me to what was needed to complete the healing. I was led to page 393 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind governs, and that in Science man reflects God's government. Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor inflammation." I knew that this covered all, and kept reading until I fell asleep. I slept till morning, when I found the textbook on my chest where it had fallen when I went to sleep. When I arose and started to go downstairs the thought of the fall confronted me, and fear tried to manifest itself. I at once declared the truth, knowing that the

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May 5, 1923
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