The testimonies in our periodicals have been of much encouragement and inspiration to me from the time I learned to read, and I wish to contribute my own public expression of gratitude. I have experienced the benefits of Christian Science since I was four years of age; so my blessings have been too numerous to repeat or even to recall. However, I should like to mention two healings which strengthened my understanding and ability to use Christian Science for myself.
About six years ago, when I was staying in the home of friends while they were away, the fingers of my left hand were caught in the blades of an electric mixer. The sense of shock and pain were so great that, after turning off the mixer, I held onto a shelf to keep from falling. As I stood there I repeated "the scientific statement of being" found on page 468 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. The thought of infection resulting from cuts by the metal blades presented itself, but immediately the lines from a favorite hymn came to me (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 182):
Make Channels for the streams of Love,
Where they may broadly run;
And Love has overflowing streams,
To fill them every one.
