Testimony of Healing June 13, 1942 Issue

Mrs. Eddy states (Science and Health...

Hugo Weil with contributions from Nellie Weil

Mrs. Eddy states (Science and Health, p. 167), "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized." Illustrative of this, I should like to relate the following experience.

I was standing on top of a ladder attempting to dislodge some bees, which had built a hive in the walls of our home, when I lost my balance, fell, and struck my ribs against the trunk of a tree, apparently breaking two or three of them. For the moment, the pain was so intense that I could hardly breathe or think. I roused myself by clinging to "the scientific statement of being," as given in our textbook (ibid., p. 468). Then I went into the house. I decided to handle the case myself, and applied what I knew of Christian Science, but after a rather sleepless night, during which I suffered a great deal of pain, I sought the aid of a Christian Science practitioner. In about three days the ribs began to knit and the pain to subside. On the third day, however, a sudden stretch that I gave in bed seemed to undo the healing work, and for about three weeks thereafter whenever I coughed, sneezed, or made a sudden movement, I suffered excruciating pain.

At the end of this period, upon examining my thought, I discovered that I was clinging to the latent belief that unless a surgeon taped the upper part of my body, put it into a plaster cast, or set the broken bones, the ribs would never knit; so I voiced these thoughts to the practitioner. He spoke of a passage in our textbook (see Science and Health 401:27), but added, "Truth can take care of the situation." This interview with the practitioner enabled me to turn my thought from any reliance on material methods or a surgeon's care, and to take a radical stand for Truth; and the healing was so natural that I forgot all about the trouble shortly after this, and have had no return of the difficulty.

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