It is with a desire to express my love to God and His Christ, and also to testify to the truth of the statement made by our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health, p. 494); that I give the following testimony.
In June, 1915, my wife and I went to spend the day with relatives in Pasadena. Just after sundown, while getting ready to return to our home in Los Angeles, my wife mistook a door which opened into a vacant cellar for the kitchen door, and fell headforemost down a flight of stairs, striking her head on the sharp corner of a step, hitting her forehead and nose against a studding, then falling back on the cement floor. My cousin, who was in the kitchen at the time, heard the fall and called to my wife. Getting no response she hurried out on the porch, and seeing the cellar door open, quickly guessed the trouble and immediately gave the alarm.
We got a light and hurried down the steps; the sight was terrible to behold. I raised my wife up, but there was no sign of life. I began to declare audibly that there is no death, and a relative from Denver who is a Christian Scientist, repeated the "scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468), and after a while my wife began to breathe. We got her upstairs, and after placing her comfortably on a couch, I went out and telephoned for a practitioner. In the meantime a doctor had been called, and by the time I returned he had arrived. I told the physician that my wife was a Christian Scientist and would not want medical aid, but I would be very glad to have him make an examination and tell me his opinion about the case, which he did. A Christian Science practitioner came and stayed for an hour, giving treatment. As my aunt and cousin were not in harmony with Christian Science, the next morning I procured an ambulance and, accompanied by the practitioner, brought my wife home.
