"Christian Science is always the most skilful surgeon," Mrs. Eddy has written on page 402 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." I am deeply grateful to have experienced the truth of the above statement.
One day, during my stay in India, I ran downstairs and fell on my right heel with the foot stretched across the edges of two stairs. The outer bone was broken just above the ankle and the ankle bones were dislocated, breaking through the flesh on the inner side of the leg. Immediately as the accident occurred came the voice of Truth, "God is all, there is naught beside Him." This gave me strength to drag myself as quickly as possible up two flights of stairs and down a long veranda, out of the public way of a hotel, to my room.
When I reached my couch I was almost overcome with faintness. As I sank back, I saw my bearer—my Indian servant—bending over me, his kind face full of grief. This roused me. I did not want to burden the faithful fellow; so I strove more earnestly to obey our beloved Leader's injunction to "rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good" (Science and Health, p. 393). And with the desire to lift the burden of distress from my servant came the ability, for it brought to remembrance a text from the Bible which a lecturer had quoted and amplified in the first Christian Science lecture in Delhi. "The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth"—grief, pain, weakness— "keep silence before him." Immediately I felt as if I had been lifted out of darkness into the sunshine of God's dear love. I was renewed in strength, and a deep sense of peace and joy flowed into my consciousness and remained with me. I suffered no more.
