Testimony of Healing June 11, 1927 Issue

For some time I have desired to send in a testimony...

Bertha Storer

For some time I have desired to send in a testimony proving the efficacy of the healing power of God as taught in Christian Science. I would have sent it before, but tried to efface it from memory. It occurred while I was visiting at the home of a cousin who was not a Scientist. I had received a letter from home telling me to return immediately as one of the members of my family was in an alarming condition. I was coming downstairs with my suit case in one hand and my hat and coat in the other when I made a misstep at the top of the stairway and fell headlong to the floor below. The first thing I remember was hearing myself repeating, "God is my Life," over and over again, and seeing my cousin's husband bathing my face. My cousin, thinking I was mortally injured, was so frightened that she had hysterics. They had sent for their physician while I was unconscious. As soon as I knew what had happened, I asked them to telephone to a practitioner; and this was done. When the doctor arrived he said that the bridge of the nose was broken and that he would have to send for an assistant to help him, as stitches were necessary to close the wound. He wanted to give me an anæsthetic while I was undergoing this ordeal, but I said I would not need it. He marveled that I could be so brave, but I knew whence the strength came.

I did not sleep any that night. The next morning, however, I was able to dress and go downstairs to talk to the practitioner over the telephone. She told me that I must know that man had never fallen, and that in order to understand this I should study the answer to the question, "What is man?" on page 475 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where Mrs. Eddy says: "Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness.... Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique." By studying this passage perseveringly, I began dimly to see that man, as the idea of God, could not fall.

By the faithful work of the practitioner I was able to drive in an automobile from Toledo, Ohio, to Centralia, Illinois. Both the doctor who first attended me and ]the one in my home town who removed the stitches told me that unless I had the service of a specialist to build up the bridge of the nose I would be disfigured for life. But the healing power of Truth was such that in a few months scarcely a trace of the accident remained, and the wound healed without a scar.

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