I wish to express my gratitude for a healing I experienced. One afternoon, while skating, I tripped and fell on the ice. I tried to break the fall by putting out my right hand, but my weight pushed it back with such force that my wrist was almost useless and pained me a great deal. I endeavored to realize the truth, and refused to acknowledge that the wrist was broken, for "in Science, no breakage nor dislocation can really occur," as Mrs. Eddy tells us on page 402 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." I managed to get home, and that evening kept an engagement in a city ten miles away. I drove an automobile, and the friend who went with me shifted gears for me. That evening the wrist pained me a great deal, so next morning I decided to have an osteopathic physician make an examination. He looked at my wrist, which was swollen considerably, and advised me to have an X-ray photograph taken at once, and then come back to see him. After arriving home I decided not to have an X-ray taken, but to work out the problem in Christian Science. That evening I called a practitioner, who told me to try to realize the allness of God, and to know that in reality an accident had never happened. I had one treatment. The next morning the wrist was much better, and in a few days normal.
The following week I went again to the rink with some friends. One of the boys, with whom I was skating, fell and slid in front of me. I again fell, this time falling on my left hand, and twisting it back with such force that I was weak from pain and almost cried out. I declared the truth to the best of my understanding, but still the pain was very severe. As this had come to me a second time, I concluded it had come to teach me a lesson, so I decided to work out the problem alone. The healing came slowly. I refused to have medical treatment, but when the healing was complete, I went to an X-ray specialist. He asked me who my doctor was. I told him I had no doctor; that I was a Christian Scientist—at least, was trying to be one. When the plate was partially developed, he came out and asked me if I had had my wrist bandaged at the time. I answered, "NO." Then he asked me if I had it in a sling. I again answered, "No"; and, becoming suspicious, asked him if the wrist had been broken. He answered, "Yes, a very bad break; the large bone was broken and a piece of bone had splintered off on each side." He then said that nature had accomplished a marvelous piece of work, healing the break and almost completely absorbing the splinters, and would complete the work. This has been done, perfectly. In Science and Health (p. 118) Mrs. Eddy speaks of "the law of Love, in which nature and God are one."
I then asked the doctor to examine the other wrist, which he did; and he said that no doubt it had been broken in the same place. All through this experience I drove my car every the first night. The X-ray plate may be seen in the physician's office by any person interested enough to investigate. This is just another proof that Christian Science can heal broken bones as readily as sickness and sin.
