That Christian Science heals I can truly affirm from experience. While I was unloading a five-hundred-pound barrel of oil from a trailer truck, the barrel slipped and crashed against the door of the truck. My right hand was crushed between the barrel and the door, and the evidence indicated extensive damage to the hand.
I managed to get home and ask my wife, who is also an earnest student of Christian Science, to help me with the situation. This she lovingly did. There was not much suffering from pain; however, a tormenting fear that I might not regain the full use of the hand presented itself to me. It was several days before I was able to lift my thought above the evidence of the senses and calmly contemplate the truth of being as I had learned it in Christian Science.
In the weeks that followed I reached out often to the divine Mind in prayer. One of the truths that became tangible to me was the inseparability of God, perfect Mind, and His expression, perfect man and the universe. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says (p. 306): "If God, who is Life, were parted for a moment from His reflection, man, during that moment there would be no divinity reflected. The Ego would be unexpressed, and the Father would be childless,—no Father." I saw that if God could be separated from His reflection, perfect man, He would be Mind without its idea, hence no Mind, no God.
