Christian Science
Testimony
INJURIES
HEALED
While
at the seaside one August my two children had a beautiful
healing from what seemed to human sense a serious blow
caused by a lad who was repairing a boat nearby where we
were sitting. He was fixing a piece of iron on the keel of a
boat, and not being sufficiently bent it required some very
heavy hammering. When he was giving a final blow the hammer
slipped from his hand and hit the elder child on the face,
causing a bad abrasion, but the baby, then ten months old,
caught the full force on his forehead. The result was
terrible to see, and the wound caused great fear to come
over me. People around advised me to take the baby at once
to a doctor, but I decided to take him to a Christian
Science practitioner who was very close at hand, and who
immediately calmed my own and the elder child's fear,
assuring us that all is well with God's children. I then
realized the power and ever-presence of God, good, and fear
entirely left me. While I was reading passages from "Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy,
the baby awoke from the sleep he had fallen into immediately
after the blow, looking quite normal and as sunny as usual.
The swelling had gone down, and by evening the wound had
completely healed, to the amazement of a lady in the house
who had only a slight knowledge of Christian Science, and
who had seen the baby in the morning.
My
gratitude is difficult to express for this experience, also
for many other blessings received; for the clearer
understanding of God, and the loving help always so very
willingly given by members of a branch church.
Alice
Jerrold
London, England
"Testimonies of
Healing"
Christian Science Sentinel, March 2,
1929
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