More than nineteen hundred years ago a man lame from birth was healed instantly by the spiritual understanding of Peter and John. He went "walking, and leaping, and praising God" (Acts 3:8). I wish to tell of my healing through the spiritual understanding of a Christian Science practitioner; for this healing was almost as remarkable as that of the lame man, and I too was enabled to go "walking, and leaping, and praising God."
One morning while crossing the street I was run over by an automobile. A traffic officer took me in an unconscious condition to an emergency hospital, where my condition was said to be beyond anything that could be done for me there. Then I was taken to a general hospital, where four physicians said that nothing could save me.
The officer who was at the scene of the accident found my identification papers and notified the principal of the school where I was teaching. The principal, a fellow Christian Scientist, immediately telephoned to a practitioner. On the seventh day, when I first awoke to consciousness, I was able to eat easily, although X rays showed that both jaws had been broken, and two teeth were almost out. The hospital workers had not set any bones nor wired the teeth. Years later a dentist pointed to the two teeth and said that these two were by far the best teeth I had.
