Testimony of Healing January 4, 1913 Issue

It is now over five years that I have depended on Christian Science...

Mildred Hirsch with contributions from Chas. S. Hirsch

It is now over five years that I have depended on Christian Science to meet every need which has come to me, and with a grateful heart I give this testimony, with the hope that it will bring help to some one, even as the testimonies in our periodicals have done for me and mine. My little daughter was operated upon by the best medical skill that could be secured, for so-called infantile paralysis, after which she wore a brace for over a year, which left the limb half the size of the other. Then a specially constructed shoe was worn nearly another year, but with no good result. Electricity was next suggested, but after consulting the best authorities in this city, I learned that they could not promise any cure. They, however, continued the experiments.

Christian Science was next brought to my notice, and I cannot tell the eagerness with which I grasped this truth, when I was told that God could heal my dear one. Thank God, the burden was lifted at once, when a chronic bowel trouble, which was in evidence from birth, was overcome. I then felt sure that God does heal, because this was the last question I had put to my doctor and he had said they could not cure this ailment, as it was a result of the condition previously named; but through divine power, my child is now a well, happy girl of ten years, with both limbs perfectly developed.

My heart goes out with deepest gratitude for all that we have received through Christian Science. When the remark is passed, "What a healthy looking child she is!" I answer "Yes, she is a living testimony to the healing power of Truth." About two years ago we had a beautiful case of instantaneous healing when my child was thrown down by a runaway horse attached to a carriage, and was brought to me unconscious. An hour later, she was out walking with the practitioner who had treated her! This certainly was a revelation to us, and it recalls the words of the 91st Psalm respecting the ever-presence of divine Love, as taught in Christian Science. I could enumerate many instances of healing, all having been brought to us through the understanding of Truth. Among these were cases of fever, colds, earache, convulsions, etc., and a very severe case of mumps; but all were quickly overcome.

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