Testimony of Healing May 18, 1940 Issue

As a Jewish boy I was brought up to fear God, a God who...

J. Henry Ball

As a Jewish boy I was brought up to fear God, a God who was capable of blessing, but who was also capable of punishing. I was a most unhappy and inharmonious individual prior to my acceptance of the blessings of Christian Science. My life was a very limited one, for I was beset by many ills, including constipation of twenty years' standing. I constantly took medicine, and my ailments made me bad tempered and impatient.

When the constipation became very acute, I went to my family physician, who, upon examination, declared that I had a quick-growing cancer in the rectum. I was then examined by six or seven prominent physicians and surgeons, who confirmed the family physician's diagnosis of my case, and said they could do nothing for me.

My doctor told me that I did not one chance in a thousand to be well, even if I were willing to be operated on, and that my end was near. I began to prepare myself to die, but I felt sorry for my family, including my young wife and two children, whom I believed I was about to leave alone and with no material support.

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