I would like to testify to a healing in which the structure of my body was changed through spiritual means alone. This healing took place after I was thirty years of age.
As far back as I can remember I had a tendency to strain or sprain an ankle. Because of this difficulty I was unable to take part in competitive boyhood sports, and each year I was immobilized for several days. I was helped many times by Christian Science treatment to recover from a sprain, but the tendency of the difficulty to recur had not yet been healed. In addition, my ankles were smaller than those of other boys who were my age. The problem persisted through my college days and for four years thereafter.
In 1930 my interest in and use of Christian Science became much more active. One evening in 1935 I became aware of the fact that I had not sprained an ankle for five years. This realization came when my feet and ankles were so weary that I did not believe I could walk the few short blocks from a Christian Science Reading Room, where I had been serving, to my home without stopping to rest. When it dawned on me that the tendency to sprain had been arrested for five years, I thought, If the problem can be worked out this far, it can be solved completely.
