Testimony of Healing May 26, 1945 Issue

I should like to express gratitude...

Alice Irene Marsh

I should like to express gratitude for the way Christian Science meets all our needs. I truly have reason to be grateful that there are Christian Science Houses in England, and I shall not soon forget the peace and realization of the presence of the Comforter which came to me when I entered one after a cycle accident one spring.

On a Sunday afternoon I thought I should have just time to visit a bluebell wood before going to church. I had a sense of rush and was pedaling down a steep, stony hill when a dog rushed in front of my bicycle and I was thrown, to the ground. A man and his wife stayed with me while my husband fetched a car. The man went to a near-by brook for water to bathe my face, saying that I should have to be taken to the hospital to have stitches taken. His wife was very kind and said she had thought how happy I looked as I cycled by her. I knew then that "joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy." as Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 304). I thought I should not seek the reason for this accident but turn it into a triumph and gain by the experience.

When I got home a Christian Science practitioner was called, and she lovingly came to our home. The next day, Monday. I telephoned the Christian Science House and was told I could be accommodated there. I made arrangements to go the next day and the petroleum officer allowed my husband petrol to take me there instead of to a hospital. The practitioner and a friend came the same day and washed and bound up the wound. Nothing but water was used. Although my face was numb, I had no pain in it or in my eye, which I could not open for a time.

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