Testimony of Healing July 16, 1949 Issue

Fractured instep healed by prompt mental treatment

Louis O. Eyinck with contributions from Hilda Eyinck

I wish to express my gratitude to God for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science. I am especially grateful for its healing power.

One day when I was walking through the machine shop where I am employed, I saw two men trying to load a heavy steel casting onto a two-wheel hand truck. I could see that the casting was too heavy for them, so I went over to give them a helping hand. As I did so, the casting slipped and fell on my instep. Immediately I knew the truth: that there are no accidents in Mind, God, that if man is created in God's image and likeness and is His reflection, then no error or harm can come to him. I repeated the "Daily Prayer" as found in the Church Manual (Art. VIII, Sect. 4), also "the scientific statement of being" from page 468 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. But as the men came from all over the shop to see what had happened, I could feel a wave of pain closing me in, pain so intense that it was almost unbearable, but I held steadfastly to the truths I had learned in Christian Science.

I was then taken to the shop nurse, who, upon seeing the foot, immediately made arrangements for me to be taken to the doctor. There was no verbal resistance made to this because I knew it was a rule of the company, and as a Christian Scientist I strive to be law-abiding. On the ride downtown to the doctor's office, I continued my metaphysical work. As we were leaving the elevator, there was a loud snap in my foot, so loud that the man who was with me heard it. Immediately all pain disappeared, and I felt light and free again. Upon seeing the foot the doctor had an X ray taken. He said that I had fractured my instep, but that the bones were set so perfectly there was nothing for him to do but wrap the foot up and send me home.

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