Testimony of Healing November 18, 1985 Issue

One morning my friend and I were playing catch with a baseball...

VANCE O. MOORE with contributions from ALTA WANDA MOORE

One morning my friend and I were playing catch with a baseball at school. My friend accidentally hit me on the jaw so hard I fell down. There was some pain. When I got up I tried to close my jaw but couldn't. I thought about "the scientific statement of being" in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, which I had learned in a Christian Science Sunday School. It starts (p. 468): "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."

Then the school bell rang and I went to class. When I got there my teacher told me to go to the clinic. The nurse asked me if I could shut my jaw. I said no. She felt my jaw and it hurt. The nurse called my mom and made arrangements to take me to my mom's place of work. My mom works at a sanatorium for Christian Scientists.

At the sanatorium a nurse took me to the nurse's station to wait for my mom. Soon my mom came and called a Christian Science practitioner, and I talked to him. He told me that I couldn't be hurt because I'm really God's image and likeness. He also said that he would pray for me. My mom put me in one of the rooms so that I could listen to a cassette of that week's Bible Lesson outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly.

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