Testimony of Healing February 22, 1975 Issue

Several years ago, while engaging in a friendly game of touch...

Pearce Allen Dressel

Several years ago, while engaging in a friendly game of touch football, I severely injured the Achilles' tendon in my right leg. My wife and I were part of a group picnicking at a state park. Following the injury I hobbled to a park bench, where I spent the rest of the afternoon.

I recalled Mrs. Eddy's statement in Science and Health (p. 424): "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony." I silently insisted that this was true—"accidents are unknown to God." And I reasoned that because God made man in His image and likeness nothing could injure His likeness.

As the afternoon wore on, the pain subsided greatly, but many remarks were made by our friends regarding leg injuries and the difficulty in healing them, the need for surgery, and lengthy convalescent periods. All these I silently refuted, but the false suggestions kept coming.

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