Testimony of Healing May 9, 1994 Issue

This testimony is long overdue

Donald Caserotti

This testimony is long overdue. Twenty years ago, while working as a medic at a United States Naval Hospital, I found a Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, along with copies of A Century of Christian Science Healing and The Christian Science Journal. It was impossible to know to whom these belonged, as we had people moving through every day. So I began to read the material, and finding it very interesting, I took it home to share with my wife.

At the time of the healing I am about to relate, my wife and I had studied the Bible Lessons from the Christian Science Quarterly sporadically, for about two years. But we had never really had an occasion to rely on Christian Science for healing.

Our first child was in preschool. One day he came into our apartment crying; he was quite hysterical, and his thumb appeared broken. This happened in the middle of the day on a Saturday, when my wife was at work. I telephoned her, and we both agreed we wanted to rely on Christian Science for healing our son. I called a practitiner listed in the Journal. Since we were so new in our study of Christian Science, she referred me to a paragraph from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 401), "Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better for Christian Scientists to leave surgery and the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while the mental healer confines himself chiefly to mental reconstruction and to the prevention of inflammation." The practitioner asked me if my wife and I were both in full accord with relying solely on Christian Science treatment to heal the finger, rather than having the bone set. I answered "yes." She agreed to accept the case.