Testimony of Healing May 18, 1992 Issue

Original in German

One Sunday morning our daughter was helping her father...

Margit Peltzer

One Sunday morning our daughter was helping her father make breakfast in the kitchen when she suddenly cried out. While cutting the bread with the electric slicer, she had cut deeply into her left index finger, so that the fingernail was split lengthwise.

While we were wrapping the finger in a bandage, we read aloud to our daughter an account from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy that tells of the healing of a little girl who had severely wounded her finger. Mrs. Eddy writes: "She seemed not to notice it. On being questioned about it she answered ingenuously, 'There is no sensation in matter.' Bounding off with laughing eyes, she presently added, 'Mamma, my finger is not a bit sore.'" We also repeated aloud "the scientific statement of being" (from Science and Health), which our daughter knew by heart. That statement made it clear to us that matter has no sensation and that man is truly spiritual.

The thing that concerned our daughter most was that she couldn't play the violin. My husband, however, guided her thoughts to spiritual qualities, which she could always express with no limitation whatsoever. This reassured the child, and she was able to eat breakfast and go to Christian Science Sunday School with her siblings.

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