I am greatly indebted to the teachings of Christian Science, for on many occasions I have experienced help in times of severe sickness and discordant conditions. The more carefully and more devotedly I study this Science and apply its teachings in daily life, the more clearly I see and recognize the great blessing that it contains.
Last fall I went through a very trying experience. I was in a railway accident, and was picked up unconscious and taken to the nearest station. A doctor who was called ascertained that I had a severe injury at the back of my head; and after he had temporarily bandaged it, he took me home in his automobile. I was still in a stunned condition, but gradually began to feel violent pains in the costal region and in one of the knees. I felt as if my whole body had been thoroughly beaten.
As soon as I had awakened from unconsciousness, I requested my daughter to ask a Christian Science practitioner to help me. Treatment was lovingly given, and immediately I was filled with a sense of complete safety in the arms of divine Love. I* mentally clung to the "scientific statement of being" in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468), in which we read: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in all." No further attention was paid to the evidence of broken ribs, nor to the wound on the back of my head, although the doctor had said there might be serious consequences. Without any material help whatsoever, and solely through my reliance upon divine help, these serious injuries were overcome. Hardly three days had passed when I was again able to help somewhat with the home work. After three weeks I was completely healed. During the whole of this experience I was filled with a sense of the deepest gratitude to God, who has taught me to understand His law, by which we can be healed of all our ills. A brother, who did not then look favorably upon Christian Science, gave it as his opinion that by no other method would so quick a healing have been possible; and he is now beginning to be interested in Christian Science.
