Testimony of Healing December 15, 1951 Issue

Christian Science has been our...

Dorothy Clemens

Christian Science has been our only physician for many years, and it has indeed been the pearl of great price to me.

I should like to tell of the healing of a fractured arm experienced by our son when he was fourteen years old. Previously I had often wondered what I would do if I were faced with the problem of a broken bone. Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health (pp. 401, 402): "Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better for Christian Scientists toleave surgery and the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while the mental healer confines himself chiefly to mental reconstruction and to the prevention of inflammation. Christian Science is always the most skilful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing which will be last acknowledged. However, it is but just to say that the author has already in her possession well-authenticated records of the cure, by herself and her students through mental surgery alone, of broken bones, dislocated joints, and spinal vertebræ." I felt sure that I would choose Christian Science care alone if I should experience a broken bone myself, but where my children were concerned, I was equally sure that I would be much too fearful to dispense with the services of a surgeon.

When our son came into the house, it was very obvious from the unnatural bend between the elbow and wrist that the arm was fractured. I said with Job (3:25), "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me." It was Sunday, and we knew of no surgeon; so we decided that my husband would take the boy to the receiving hospital for emergency treatment and that I would call a practitioner while they were en route. As soon as I talked with him, my fears completely vanished; he assured me that it was all right to have the arm set if that was what we wanted. When my husband returned home with our son, he reported that the attendant had placed a splint on the arm, but had done nothing else to it, for he said the arm was perfectly straight and showed no evidence of injury. The boy removed the splint the next day, and by the end of the week he was delivering papers, using the arm, and suffering no ill effects.

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