Christian Science
Testimony
BURNS
HEALED
One morning I put a pot of wax on
the gas stove to melt, in order that I might wax some
flowers. Just then I was called to the telephone. I had
talked a minute or so, when I smelled smoke, and leaving the
telephone I found the wax ablaze. Wishing to save my house,
I started to throw the wax out by the back door. I opened
the inside door, but the storm door blew back against me,
knocking the blazing wax all over me. I ran out of the front
door with my clothing all ablaze. Our neighbors across the
street saw me and came running over with a blanket, which
they wrapped me up in, thus smothering the fire. They then
carried me into the house, and asked the name of the doctor
they should call, since I seemed to be badly burned. I told
them I was all right, but asked them to call my mother and
she would know what I wanted. A Christian Science
practitioner was communicated with, and inside of fifteen
minutes I was free from pain and singing hymns of praise. I
was blind the first half hour, but after that my sight
returned. In an hour I walked out unaided to the
practitioner's car, which was waiting to take me to my
mother's house in order that telephone calls and visitors
might be avoided, as a number of people had seen me when I
ran out of the house enveloped in flames, and they had
spread the news that I was badly burned. That evening a
number of people came to see me, but they could not realize
I had been badly burned, as I was able to laugh and talk to
them. At the end of seven weeks I was perfectly healed.
During this experience I
received another wonderful healing. When I was six years old
and in the first grade, I went to school early one noon. I
was having a wonderful time, as I thought, walking on the
top of the desks, when I heard my teacher coming. I started
to step down quickly, with the result that I fell on one of
the desks and broke my nose. This happened in a very small
town where there was but one doctor, and he was away at the
time. When he arrived home he said the nose was too sore to
set. Years passed, during which I breathed through only one
side of my nose, as a result of the fall. Sometime during
the treatment for the burns this difficulty was met; my nose
became normal, and my breathing has been perfect ever since.
I am very grateful to our Leader for this healing truth;
also to the practitioner who worked so faithfully for
me.
Rena Ellen Abraham
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
"Testimonies of
Healing"
The Christian Science Journal, May,
1929
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