It is about seventeen years since my testimony was published in the Christian Science Sentinel. I feel therefore that it is time again to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for the many healings we have experienced in our home during these years. Especially I should like to relate a healing I experienced whilst I was serving as Second Reader in the branch church of which I am a member.
One Saturday morning I sustained an accident to my arm. Immediately I called out, "God's child is not hurt." Then a verse from Psalms that had been read from the desk at church the previous Sunday came to my thought (34:20): "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken." Because of a great sense of faintness and distress, I was unable to walk. Some people who came to see what was the matter suggested that I go to the infirmary. I replied that I would be all right if I could sit down; so someone helped me into a nearby house, where I was given an easy chair to rest in while a warm drink was prepared for me. I did not know the one who was so kind to me, but I do owe her very grateful thanks for her ready help. She sent a relative for my daughter, and I was soon able to walk home.
Although the arm commenced to swell and became very discolored, I steadfastly refused to go to the infirmary. I knew that God could and would heal it. I read from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 402), "In Science, no breakage nor dislocation can really occur," and (ibid., p. 381), "We cannot in reality suffer from breaking anything except a moral or spiritual law."
