A few years ago, I cut my left hand with a piece of a...

Carl August Lebeth

A few years ago, I cut my left hand with a piece of a broken glass bottle, and four tendons were severed. A physician living in the house put on a temporary dressing and said that if my hand were not entirely lost, the fingers would always be stiff. Then I was taken to a hospital, where my hand was cleansed, sewed up, and put in a splint. The doctor who treated me also declared that my hand would at least be stiff. The anæsthesia in which I fell during the operation was so deep that my mother was afraidn I should not awake again.

After this occurrence my mother applied to a Christian Science practitioner, who lovingly went to work for me at once. Even during the first treatment, as well as during the present and absent treatments which followed, I felt the divine impulse making itself manifest in the reanimation and knitting together of my hand. A few days later there was a considerable suppuration, which ceased after a few hours. This seemed to be a cleansing of the wound brought about by the metaphysical work. For the dressing of the wound I employed a doctor living in the neighborhood. He too asserted that the hand would be stiff. However, after twelve days he was able to remove the splint and even take the stitches from the wound. The tendons had grown together. The doctor was speechless, and said he had never before seen such a case in his practice. Little by little feeling returned, the fingers regained their flexibility, and the great loss of blood was replaced. The hand was completely healed.

Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for the great love and goodness which our heavenly Father has revealed to me. I am also grateful to the practitioner for her faithful help and the great loving-kindness which she showed me.—Carl August Lebeth, Braunschweig, Germany.

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