Testimony of Healing February 16, 1899 Issue

The day that Carol Norton arrived in this city to lecture,...

H. T. Howell

The day that Carol Norton arrived in this city to lecture, a messenger came stating that I was wanted in a case of the grip with its so-called fatal after-effects. The sufferer was an old lady in the seventies who was being treated by materia medica, and the case got so bad that the good doctor told her to make preparations for death, and also recommended that if she had any relations or friends they should be sent for at once. I could not go immediately for the reason above stated, but went the day afterward, and found everything in confusion, as is usual in such cases; but after two weeks' treatment she is about the house, dressed, and able to go out, and would go were it advisable to allow her to do so. When I approached the case it almost made me quail; her age, her decrepit condition, the advanced stage of the disease, the expectoration and paroxysms of coughing, the remarks of the nurse, telling her not to be afraid to die, that she had always been a good woman, etc., made me feel a trifle squeamish, but I picked up a copy of the Psalms and read aloud the ninety-first Psalm; then I read from Science and Health, beginning with page 392, and continued reading aloud for ten pages. In the mean time the patient presented the aspect of suffocating, breath very short, panting like a dog on a hot day, but in a short time I heard the regular breathing, and then a gentle snore, and the patient had fallen asleep and slept for fully half an hour.

I then gave directions that the public should be kept away as much as possible, and promised to go again the next day, which I did. I learned then that the neighbors had been in and the subject of death had been discussed, so that fear had again taken possession, and the good work of the day previous was almost undone. I continued this way for a week, with alternate success and relapse, until finally Truth was the victor.

Several other cases of the grip have yielded to the influence of Truth as taught in Science and Health, by Mary Baker G. Eddy. One of our most prominent physicians was buried one day last week from the effects of the grip.

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