Testimony of Healing March 15, 1969 Issue

Two summers ago I was playing golf with a friend one afternoon...

Jeannette Teape-White

Two summers ago I was playing golf with a friend one afternoon and was struck by a golf ball in flight. The impact knocked me off my feet and seemed to stun me.

A young man, who was a doctor, interrupted his own golf game to come to my aid, but all he could do was hold his handkerchief to my head and bemoan the fact that he was helpless without his medical kit. He started making an audible diagnosis. The ball had just missed my left eye, he announced, but there was a deep gash across my left eyebrow that would need several surgical stitches. He mentioned the possibility of internal injury that could seriously affect the sight in my left eye.

At this juncture I made an effort to rise, declaring that I was a Christian Scientist and did not need medical aid, but the doctor held me where I was and told me to lie still. I knew that I must make a stronger effort, that I was not helpless, and that God, divine Love, was ever present. As I heard the doctor ask for volunteers to run to the clubhouse for some sort of stretcher and to order an ambulance, I reached out to God; and the words of Mrs. Eddy found on page 393 of Science and Health came clearly to thought: "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man."

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