In her textbook on Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes, “I was called to visit Mr. Clark in Lynn, who had been confined to his bed six months with hip-disease, caused by a fall upon a wooden spike when quite a boy”

(pp. 192–193). She goes on to describe the condition of the wound as shown to her by the doctor present, who said that the man was dying. After the doctor left, Mrs. Eddy went to the man’s bedside. “In a few moments,” her account continues, “his face changed; its death-pallor gave place to a natural hue. The eyelids closed gently and the breathing became natural; he was asleep. In about ten minutes he opened his eyes and said: ‘I feel like a new man. My suffering is all gone.’ ”

This reminds me of an experience I had some years ago. I had been assisting a friend in coaching a practice of my young son’s soccer team. When jumping up to loop the net over the hooks above one of the goals, I caught a ring finger on one of the hooks. When I came down, part of the finger was severed.