Testimony of Healing April 27, 1940 Issue

Mary Baker Eddy tells us in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Charlotte Ganahl Stoddard

Mary Baker Eddy tells us in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 402), that "Christian Science is always the most skilful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing which will be last acknowledged. However," she continues, "it is but just to say that the author has already in her possession well-authenticated records of the cure, by herself and her students through mental surgery alone, of broken bones, dislocated joints, and spinal vertebrae."

It is with an unbounded sense of gratitude and joy that I wish to testify to the efficacy of Christian Science. One Saturday evening I was returning from a walk. I had just started to step onto the sidewalk when a large car without headlights swung around the corner and ran over me. The car had to back up and go over me again, in order to get away from me and from a car which was parked near the curb. While I was undergoing this experience, a feeling of assurance of divine power and of the fact that, in my true selfhood, I was spiritual came to me. Then came a crowd, sympathizing and trying to get me to consent to be taken to an emergency hospital. But someone in the crowd kindly helped me into a sitting position, and then to my home, a few steps away. One foot and leg, which were badly bruised and swollen, I was unable to move; the opposite side of the body was bruised and black, but there were no broken bones.

Loving friends suddenly appeared and put through a long-distance call to a Christian Science practitioner for me. Immediately came the command that I was "to glorify God—to stand on that foot, walk, and sing hymns." All shock and trembling ceased, and a sense of my spiritual sonship came to me. I was obedient to the Christ. "Walk and sing" I did, though to mortal sense this had seemed impossible. By midnight I went to sleep, entirely free from pain. In three days' time I was able to go on duty, though the bruises were a little slower in yielding.

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