Testimony of Healing May 9, 1936 Issue

I first became interested in Christian Science when my...

Mary E. Green

I first became interested in Christian Science when my husband was declared by his doctors to be tubercular. His sister offered him "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and asked him to read it. He did not read it, but I did, and I have been so grateful ever since that I found this great truth. I soon purchased a textbook of my own, and during the eighteen years since then we have had many healings in our home, and I have found that Christian Science meets all human needs.

One day I received a message that my eldest daughter had been in an automobile accident, and that I must come at once to a home several miles distant and bring a doctor. As my husband was out of town with our car, I asked the doctor if I could ride with him. While waiting for him I called a Christian Science practitioner in a neighboring town, and she said: "There are no accidents in God's kingdom. Your daughter is a perfect idea right now and ever." I shall never cease to be grateful for the feeling of assurance and peace that came to me and stayed with me through that night.

On our arrival we found that the car had been completely demolished, quite a large crowd had gathered, and doctors and an ambulance had been sent for. The doctor informed others that the girl had a basal fracture and would not live to be moved. He had known me from childhood, and knew that I was a student of Christian Science, and as we stood beside the girl he did not offer to say anything to me. When I asked him if he thought any bones were broken, he answered: "She will never suffer from broken bones. She has a basal fracture and there is nothing that medical science can do." The ambulance arrived soon, and we took her to the same town where the practitioner lived. She had been moaning constantly, but about halfway to our destination she stopped, and the attendant examined her, thinking she had passed on. She was breathing quietly and was completely healed of the skull fracture before she reached the hospital, where they took many X rays, trying to find the fracture.

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