Testimony of Healing April 26, 1999 Issue

Spiritual healing prevents need for surgery

Karen Knight

One morning I went down to our basement to put something away and caught my hand in a fishhook that was hanging on a line down a post. I called my husband to come and cut me off the line, and when he saw what had happened, he told me I would need to go to a doctor to have the fishhook cut out.

I was so afraid that I fainted, and when I came around, my daughter Rachael was declaring "the scientific statement of being" and other truths from Science and Health aloud to me. Dick bundled me into the car, but as we were too early for the doctor's appointment, he then decided we should go back inside.

I took this opportunity to telephone a Christian Science practitioner, who assured me that "truth removes properly whatever is offensive." The complete quotation from Science and Health reads, "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive" (p. 463). I asked Dick to cancel the doctor's appointment, as I wanted to rely on Christian Science. He felt strongly that I must go to the doctor, but he was willing to postpone the appointment until the afternoon. Rachael read the Bible Lesson (found in the Christian Science Quarterly) to me, and we thought about what it was saying. I found it very comforting.