Testimony of Healing May 1, 1948 Issue

I feel that I can never be sufficiently...

E. Bruce Maxwell

I feel that I can never be sufficiently grateful for the Christian Science organization and especially for the Christian Science Wartime Activities.

While serving with the Royal Air Force Bomber Command in England, I received severe abdominal gunshot wounds and a double fracture of the hip joint. As soon as I realized what had taken place I immediately declared "the scientific statement of being" as given on page 468 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I repeated this to myself over and over again, until I eventually lost consciousness.

My mother in New Zealand was notified by cable of my condition and immediately had absent treatment given me. She also cabled my address and condition to the Christian Science Wartime Activities office in London, and a practitioner was immediately sent to me. On arrival at the hospital, the practitioner was at first told that I was in no condition to see visitors; in fact, they said that when I was admitted to the hospital the senior surgeon had given me only a few hours to live. On hearing that there was a practitioner to see me, I insisted on seeing him, and he gave me a present treatment, to which I responded remarkably. He explained that he was going away to serve as an Officiating Minister in Italy, and that another practitioner would be sent from London in the course of a few days to give me another present treatment, and that I would be given absent treatment daily in the meantime. My progress was slow but sure, and gradually medical theory after medical theory was reversed, until I was entirely fit. I am now enjoying perfect health and have been placed on the Reserve of Air Force Officers with a full fixing medical category.

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