"O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him" (Ps. 34:8). Our Father-Mother God has been good to me. Even when I did not know God, at least when I had no true concept of Him, Principle, Love, certainly searched me out and caused the light of Christian Science to shine on my pathway.
The same Principle has protected me and, on occasions when I lost sight of its presence, has repaired the resultant damage through Christ, Truth. For example, a number of years ago, before receiving the blessings of class instruction, I experienced a physical difficulty which threw me violently on the sidewalk against an open basement steel door. Some five hours later I regained consciousness in an emergency hospital. The nurse and the attendant were greatly surprised to see life manifested again. As I spoke with them I became conscious of severe pain in my shoulder and back; dullness and other symptoms were present also. The attendant informed me that I had had an attack of epilepsy and had broken my shoulder when I fell against the door. I knew that this was not the truth, even though the evidence to the contrary was pronounced.
I was grateful for the love that I knew these attendants reflected. They graciously slung my arm to ease the weight on my broken and dislocated shoulder, telling me to go to my family physician at once. A statement of Mrs. Eddy's which I had read on page 132 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" filled my thought, and I told them that God was my physician. Upon learning that I was a Christian Scientist they said I should see a practitioner immediately. Had this occurred a few years earlier I would surely have been in the care of a doctor, for the setting and healing of broken bones was the one thing I was most reluctant to accept in the teachings of Christian Science.
A practitioner was called. I had been knowing the truth about the situation, but not with sufficient understanding to prove it. Arrangements were made for me to have Christian Science nursing care, and the practitioner lovingly and clearly realized the ever-presence of Christ, Truth. The suffering was unbearable, until in the evening I fell into the most peaceful sleep I have ever known. The next morning I arose free from any of the former symptoms of epilepsy. Also the shoulder had set perfectly, and only a trace of stiffness in the muscles of the back remained.
I resumed my normal routine of work in a couple of days, and three weeks later I lifted a woman from her wheel chair into a car with no thought of or reaction to the suggested fracture. There has never been any recurrence, which proves Mrs. Eddy's statement made on page 217 of Science and Health: "That scientific methods are superior to others, is seen by their effects. When you have once conquered a diseased condition of the body through Mind, that condition never recurs, and you have won a point in Science."— San Francisco, California.
