We hear it often affirmed that Christian Science is good enough for nervous troubles, but when organic diseases, or disorder arising from accidents appear, it is high time to appeal to the surgeon or materia medica. The following experience may not appeal to such as rest blindly upon this dictum of mortal mind, but it may help some one seeking for something beyond matter and material theories and their supposititious laws.
Going to my office one morning, myself and my wheel got tangled up with a sand wagon. I fell to the pavement, and the driver, not seeing me, drove quietly on. In my one desire to get my bicycle out of the way of advancing wheels, my own relation to them was forgotten, until I was sharply reminded of the fact by a sense that my foot was being crushed. My right leg was flat upon the pavement, so that my foot was lying upon the side. The wheel passed over the foot at the instep. I have never known whether there was any sand in the wagon, but that there was plenty of weight is shown by the fact that the sole of the shoe was so warped inwardly and outwardly that it could not be subsequently worn.
The people who gathered called a carriage and I went on my way to my office. I took my shoe off at once, and pain soon began to make a very strong plea. This was met in a few moments and it never after troubled me, except the first night or two, when it awakened me from sleep, but disappeared quickly when met with Truth and Love.
