Testimony of Healing January 26, 1899 Issue

I wish to tell of my wonderful healing through Christian Science...

Anna Gordon

I wish to tell of my wonderful healing through Christian Science. I had been suffering for nearly three years with stomach trouble. My food soured and did not digest at all. There would be so much gas in my stomach I could not lie down or get any sleep until I threw it up. So my food did me no good and I was really starving. I was running down as fast as I could; the last year I went very fast. My flesh was nearly all gone; nothing but the skin over the bones remained, and I was so weak I could scarcely walk. I tried drugs until I was tired of them and knew there was no virtue in them. My faith was strong in the Lord to heal me, and I prayed almost continually to be healed, but still was not.

My son requested me to go and consult a specialist, and to please him I went. He put me on a prescribed diet, and gave me medicine, but did not tell me he could cure me. He said my age was against me. (I was sixty-two.) I thought it strange, for Jesus never told people he could heal them if they were younger. The doctor's medicine did me no good. He told my son I had cancer of the stomach. I came home much weaker than when I went away.

My daughter then prevailed on me to try Christian Science. No person could be more prejudiced against Christian Science than I was. I had been a member of the First Day Advent Church and a Bible student for years; but I consented to try it, with no intention of becoming a Christian Scientist, or changing my views in the least. I thought I had the truth, and therefore would not change my theology. I believed in a personal God and a personal devil, and in the literal coming of Christ. I thought I had given up everything for Christ, but I was made to see I had not given up anything, nor was I willing to do so. I had my idols set up in my heart, and I was not willing to give them up.

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