It is with deepest gratitude that I give this testimony of...

Mary Alice Bradford

It is with deepest gratitude that I give this testimony of the perfect healing of a broken bone through the application of Christian Science alone, thus proving that mental surgery is an established fact.

Two days before a certain Christmas, while engaged in cleaning house, I fell backward from the top of the kitchen table and was thrown on my back with full force, my right hand and wrist coming in contact with the iron leg of the gas range. The result was a fracture of the wrist bone and a very painful injury to the back of the hand. The wrist was examined by a surgeon and the injury pronounced a fracture, but the bone was not set. At no time was it bandaged or even wrapped up: it was left entirely with God, and the result was a complete and permanent healing, no trace whatever of the injury being left.

Resentment had thrown me down, but it could not keep me down. Though stunned for a moment, I began declaring the truth, as taught in Christian Science, that I was God's child and could not be hurt any more than God could be hurt. I worked mentally as best I could under a sense of intense pain, and within fifteen minutes I was able to continue the work I was engaged in, washing eight windows outside and inside, dusting and moving furniture into place, using the left hand entirely and allowing the right arm to remain at my side. The severe pain of which I seemed to be conscious at first, gradually diminished, and I did not call a practitioner until toward evening. That night I retired fully dressed, with the exception of my shoes, as I found it impossible to get my clothes off, and there was no one to assist me.

The next day I attended the Sunday morning church service, and in the afternoon heard a wonderful lecture on Christian Science. The appearance of the hand and arm by this time was indicative of serious injury, but there was no mark or bruise on my body otherwise, no sense of lameness, or a reminder of what had been, to mortal sense, a dangerous fall. That night I again retired with most of my clothes on; but the following day, after receiving treatment at a practitioner's office, fear was destroyed to the extent that I was able to go home and pack several Christmas packages, using my right hand as much as possible; and that night I underssed, took a bath, and slept peacefully.

On Christmas morning it was truly marvelous the way the "angels"—"God's thoughts passing to man" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 581)—came one after the other to minister to me. Error kept arguing that I could not dress myself; but I knew it was the hand of God that accomplished all things. As I started to comb my hair, this thought from our Hymnal came: "The hand that fashions is divine;" and what at first seemed difficult was done with very little inconvenience. I attended a Christmas dinner in San Francisco with members of my family, conscious of great joy and gratitude for the opportunity of proving God's goodness and the mighty healing power of Christian Science.

I think the greatest fear in my thought during this experience was that of having a stiff wrist, or lameness, which would interfere with my piano work; but the practitioner assured me that no good thing could be destroyed or taken from me, and I rejoice to say that this was proved true in my case. My complete healing seemed slow; I fought more than one battle with doubt and fear, and there was much resentment and bitterness in my thought which had to be uprooted. I am more than grateful for the loving help given me by the practitioner all through this experience. In one month from the day of the injury I was able to take an office position where my work consisted of almost continuous writing.

I am grateful to our Father-Mother, God, for all the rich blessings that have come to me and mine through the understanding of Christian Science; and I am grateful to Mrs. Eddy for giving to the world this wonderful truth that "meets the heart's great needs." I rejoice that I am a member of The Mother Church and of a branch church, and that I have the privilege of teaching in the Sunday school and of serving on the music committee of our church.

(Mrs.) Mary Alice Bradford, Burlingame, California.

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