Every earnest student of Christian Science is continually grateful for the innumerable proofs that Christian Science heals.
I had a healing experience which brought a wonderful lesson. After I reached the bottom of a stairway I slipped on a small rug. My right foot was doubled back under me, and the ankle bone was dislocated. A member of the family hurried to my assistance. I asked to be left alone but to have the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, brought to me. I turned to page 393 and read this comforting assurance: "Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as a result of a law of any kind." Then the inspiring thought came that there is no law governing matter, because matter is nothing, a mere illusion of the carnal mind. The only law is the law of God governing the spiritual man. This being true, I was upheld by that law and could not fall. If the body chose to fall it could not take me, my thought, with it; for thought is in Mind, "in the secret place of the most High." In fifteen or twenty minutes I was able to get up and walk the length of the room to a chair, where I continued rejoicing in the truth. Later I helped to serve the dinner. When my son saw the protruding bone he was disturbed about it. I reminded him that Christian Science teaches us not to look to body but to look for the manifestation of Love. There was no more anxiety. Later in the evening, the bone went back into place. The next morning the broken flesh was nearly healed. Before the day was over the entire condition had responded to the law of harmony. I am most grateful for the lesson that came with the experience. There came a clear realization that I had God-given authority always to refuse to follow the body should it choose to stray into the mire of limitation, lack, and fear. It is man's privilege to identify himself with the government of Mind. This never fails to bring harmonious results.
My daughter experienced a healing through spiritual means. For nearly a year there had existed a condition which resembled a head cold. This caused annoyance but not much distress. Later, however, this was accompanied by headache and dizziness. She had been working on the problem up to her highest understanding, but, when it became apparent that there was a growth on the inside of the nostril which made breathing difficult, she felt she must ask for help. Treatment was begun. The truth found on page 162 of Science and Health was affirmed and reaffirmed: "Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates and purifies." Within a week a wonderful healing took place. A cartilaginous growth nearly two inches long came away. She was free.
