Testimony of Healing March 17, 1997 Issue

When I was sixteen years old, I was thrown from an automobile...

Dorothy Jane King

When I was sixteen years old, I was thrown from an automobile as the result of an accident, and landed forcefully on my head. I was taken unconscious to a hospital, and my parents were called. They brought a Christian Science practitioner to me immediately. The doctor described the critical condition of a concussion, a fractured skull, and a jaw broken in two places. There were also severe neck lacerations and extensive paralysis affecting my left side.

From the time my parents had begun their study of Christian Science, they had found they could rely completely on the truth of its teachings to heal every problem that arose for themselves or their four children. They knew the power of the truth in the words of Proverbs: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths" (3:5, 6).

The physician told my parents that he doubted seriously that I would survive the compounded injuries. He strongly advised against moving me, but after prayerful consideration, and the practitioner's agreement to support their decision, my parents signed a hospital waiver of responsibility and release and took me home, where we could rely wholeheartedly on God to heal me. They expected healing.

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