Testimony of Healing October 2, 1948 Issue

Words alone can never express...

Signe M. Engelbretsen

Words alone can never express my gratitude for what Christian Science has been to me for many years. I have learned that this Science does heal, whatever the problem may be, if only I can open my thought and accept the truths which we find in the Bible and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. To show my gratitude I give this testimony about the healing of a fractured hipbone.

One Sunday evening in January, 1945, I was on my way home after visiting a friend. It was late at night and very dark in the streets because of the black-out. When I left the tramcar, the light in my torch went out and I was in darkness. As I crossed the street, I fell and could not arise without help. Some young men who were near by took me to my home. I thought: "There is no accident in Mind, therefore nothing can be broken. God is here." My landlady said: "I am sure your leg is broken. You must have a doctor, and you must be sent to a hospital, for you can get no nursing here." I said only, "There is no fracture, but you may send for a doctor tomorrow." She helped me to bed and left.

I was alone with God. I had no fear because I knew I was "in the secret place of the most High" and "under the shadow of the Almighty." I took Science and Health and opened it at random and read (p. 468), "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay." I held to this thought all night, together with "the scientific statement of being" (ibid.), and also the Lord's Prayer, the twenty-seventh and ninety-first Psalms, and other wonderful citations from the Bible. The pain in the leg from toe to hip was intense. I worked mentally until about six o'clock in the morning; then I fell asleep. When I awoke I had no pain at all. I could stand on my foot and walk, but because I felt a little discomfort I went back to bed. A doctor came in the evening, and during his examination of the leg I felt no pain. At last he said: "I cannot detect a fracture; maybe there is one, but I cannot find it. I think you will be all right in four or five days, if you will stay quietly in bed." Some friends helped me a little and obtained a nurse for two hours a day. I did not suffer at all and could read or work all day.

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