Testimony of Healing July 13, 1899 Issue

A man and his wife from the country were among the...

Ellen A. Phelps with contributions from Jacob Zingg

A man and his wife from the country were among the strangers at one of our Wednesday evening meetings. The man told me he knew nothing about Christian Science, but had heard we did healing work. I told him about it, and after the service he was so impressed with the truth of what he had heard that he said many times before leaving the hall, "This is the Truth as Christ taught it;" he seemed to be full of the thought.

He had been suffering from rheumatism for eighteen years with no help from the doctor, although he had tried everything. The next morning his rheumatism all left him. He came to the next Wednesday evening meeting and gave his testimony. Toward spring he came in with another demonstration of the power of Truth over error. He said he had suffered with pain in his left elbow for two days the previous week, and finally said to his wife, "I fear that old claim has returned. She denied it and the pain left. He said, "I want to tell you something I have never told you. I could not throw with my right hand for twenty years, now I can throw as well as I ever could."

In the latter part of March, 1899, he was sawing logs in the woods. He had an iron wedge under his side of the log, and in some way it flew and struck him on the side of the head landing him some twenty feet away. He was unconscious for an hour and a half, during which time he was carried home and a Christian Scientist sent for. When he regained consciousness he suffered severely from pain in the head. About the time the Christian Scientist received word he fell into a quiet sleep, which lasted about an hour. At noon he was able to eat a hearty dinner. During the afternoon his neighbors came to see whether he was alive or not, and he entertained them by preaching the Truth of Christian Science.

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