Testimony of Healing June 6, 1931 Issue

About thirty-one years ago my mother was led to take...

Olive F. Adams

About thirty-one years ago my mother was led to take up the study of Christian Science through the healing of a sister who had never been strong, and who had grown very much worse at that time. She was sent to the South to gain strength for an operation, but grew weaker instead. Through the advice of another sister, who was not herself a Scientist, she was led to try Christian Science and was healed. Through these years we have experienced and seen all kinds of healing.

Ten years ago I was visiting relatives and friends in Minnesota. My eldest boy, who was then four years old, was playing with some cousins in a cemetery where some men were working. He climbed up on the base of a large tombstone. The stone was old, and being jarred in some way it fell upon him, pinning his body underneath, from the waist down. It took two men to lift the stone off. His grandfather carried him home. There was a Christian Science practitioner living very near, and I called her immediately. In a very few minutes after the child was brought in his color returned. His grandmother was making cookies and he ate several; he was in no pain. After a while he became tired and we decided to take his clothes off and put him to bed. While cutting them off I saw that his underwear was bloody. I went no farther, but called the practitioner again and told her. She advised me to leave him as he was until bedtime, when she would come and undress him. This we did, and when she had him ready for bed there was not a mark on his body. One leg seemed to be broken between the knee and hip, and the knee joint was twisted until his foot turned over halfway toward the back. This occurred on the first day of September, and in three weeks I came home with him. During all this time he never suffered, and after the first week crawled all over the house and yard, and even up and down porch steps, with no inconvenience. The trip home was the easiest I ever made, although I also had my baby, who could not walk, and my little girl with me. I had to change trains at St. Paul and spend the night in a hotel, but whenever I needed anything there was someone right there to help me. One week after we arrived home the boy was walking, and before the cold weather set in he was walking without a limp. There was no sign of the trouble left. The hip, which seemed to be crushed, filled out exactly as before. This seemed to take longer, and I had to learn to stop watching to see "error made right."

We are all grateful for Christian Science and all it stands for. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church; also for the local services and the Sunday school for the children.—(Mrs.)Olive F. Adams, Forsyth, Montana.

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