Testimony of Healing January 5, 1899 Issue

Seven years ago I was severly injured by a fall and...

William Groeling

Seven years ago I was severly injured by a fall and sought medical aid. I was informed that I had concussion of the spine, and could not return to work. I suffered intense pain all winter and had constant headache and backache. The following spring I felt somewhat better and my physician recommended out-of-door employment, but I grew gradually worse. I was then put into a plaster-of-paris jacket, still no improvement. The pain in my head so affected me that I tried glasses. Eighteen months later I went to the hospital and was operated upon for stone in the bladder, but received no permanent benefit.

In the fall of 1897 I was prostrated with kidney trouble, and was attended by two doctors and a nurse. For three months I was unable to attend to business of any kind. In February, 1898, I tried light employment, still remaining under the care of a local physician, who finally informed me that I was incurable.

About this time I received a letter from a friend who had been cured by Christian Science, and was positive that I could be healed if I would give it a trial. I did not have any faith in it and thought it was all folly. The physician said that I would soon be paralyzed, as my left side was already affected. I then decided to try Christian Science and wrote to a healer in Brooklyn. She gave me absent treatment for nine weeks. I often became discouraged, and at times I was tempted to return to medicine, but when I remembered that I had received so little benefit from it, I clung to the Truth. When I had been under treatment six weeks, my friend who had recommended Christian Science returned home and encouraged me by constantly holding the Truth before me. Now I am well and happy, and have learned that Christian Science not only heals us, but teaches us how to keep well. In July we started meetings in our home, and have from three to seven in attendance every Sunday. Several have been healed through Christian Science.—William Groeling, Middletown, N. Y.

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