Testimony of Healing July 18, 1925 Issue

I was returning from the pasture about dark one evening...

Elgin Cook

I was returning from the pasture about dark one evening riding bareback on a horse which was very high-spirited, when suddenly he reared and fell over backwards, catching me across the hips and breaking the pelvis bone. I said to myself that God is good and there is no evil; but on trying to rise I could only get to my hands and knees. I then silently repeated Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, as given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 16, 17). A car came along then, which I hailed, and the three occupants kindly helped me into it. I began to feel faint, but upon again declaring the allness of God and the nothingness of evil I felt refreshed. At my request I was driven to a doctor's office, where an X-ray picture was taken. The doctor said the bone was broken in several places, but needed no adjustment; that I would, however, have to stay in bed several weeks and lie perfectly still. By this time a number of friends who had gathered around me kindly put me on a stretcher, took me home, and put me to bed. All this time I had no pain, except when moving or twisting into odd positions. Next morning I requested my wife to ask a neighbor, who was a telegraph operator, to wire to a Christian Science practitioner for treatments, which he did. The stiffness which had seemed apparent soon left; and on the fourth day my neighbor was asked to wire the practitioner to discontinue treatments. He was also asked to bring me a pair of crutches. He did so, and on the sixth day I walked seven blocks with them. A week later I discarded one crutch. A day or two later the county fair began in our city, and with the heavy end of a billiard cue for a cane I went on duty as city marshal, street and water commissioner. I put in nineteen hours that day, on my feet practically all the time. I have been a student of Christian Science for over twenty years, and this is my third and most serious accident resulting in broken bones. I proved to my entire satisfaction that all suffering and the devils many spoken of in the Scriptures can be overcome if God's Word is applied through the light Mrs. Eddy has given us.

Words are lacking with which to express my gratitude to our dear Leader for the light she has given us, by which we are able to understand God's Word, and to overcome the ills and suffering which have seemed so real to me and to my family of six.—Elgin Cook, Edgemont, South Dakota.

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