Testimony of Healing January 24, 1976 Issue

About eight years ago, after a very unhappy personal experience,...

Gloria B. Nathan

About eight years ago, after a very unhappy personal experience, one of my sons and I set out on a twelve-hundred-mile move, with the other two children to follow later. About fifty miles after our start, we were involved in an automobile accident in which the car was damaged beyond repair. I was unconscious, and my son and I were taken by ambulance to a hospital in the city from which we had started. My son's injuries were not serious, and he was out of the hospital in a day or two.

Twelve hours after the accident I regained consciousness, completely unaware of what had happened. I learned later that I had been X-rayed. My back was broken in two places; there were predictions that I would never walk, and that there was a possibility that I could not again function fully as a human being. In addition, I was having double vision. Gratefully I also learned that a friend, who was a Christian Scientist, had been allowed to see me, and that she had read the Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly to me.

Immediately upon hearing of the accident my eldest son had called a Christian Science practitioner to treat me. My parents came to help; and my mother kept in touch constantly with a practitioner who, as each medical law was laid down, would reverse it through prayerful metaphysics. The second week I was in the hospital I received a letter from the practitioner. He enclosed a testimony from the Sentinel about a young girl who had been run over in the street. She had chosen Christian Science treatment, had been taken to her home, and within three days was completely healed. I knew that I couldn't mix both spiritual and material means of healing.

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