Words seem inadequate to express my gratitude for the many blessings received through the understanding of the truth as gained in the study of Christian Science. On Aug. 15, 1913, while I was engaged in helping to move a building down grade on wooden rollers, my right foot was caught under one of the rollers by the building suddenly moving ahead. The roller caught the side of the foot, pinning it to the ground, and passed over the ankle, causing very serious injuries. For a moment sudden fear seized me, for it seemed to mortal sense as if the foot had been torn off. Then the thought came that Christian Science could help me, so I declared the truth as best I knew how and telephoned a practitioner.
The foot was under the roller for eight or ten minutes before it could be released; then with some help I hobbled to the house and waited for the doctor who had been called. When she came, she slipped the ankle back into place, and said that as some of the bones were broken she would take me to the hospital for an X-ray examination and to have the bones set properly. She did not come again, however, until the third day after the accident, and then she took me in an automobile nine miles to the hospital. The bones were set the following day. The doctor at the hospital declared that the ankle would always be stiff and I would suffer a great deal of pain. I kept the Christian Science practitioner informed of my condition, and am happy to say that both of these manmade laws were broken. I did not suffer any pain at all, and that ankle is just as flexible as the other, so that I walk as well as I ever did. There is no lameness whatever.— Plainfield, N. J.
