Testimony of Healing August 17, 1899 Issue

Score One for Christian Science

Momence (III.) Press-Reporter

The Scientists have scored a great gain in public sentiment in this community during the past few weeks, and they are therefore feeling very much encouraged. Some will say of course that the work they are accomplishing is but the work of nature, the natural result of a tendency on the part of the human system to overcome its own ills and weaknesses, and in a measure this theory may be true. The case which has brought this society into unusual prominence in Momence during the past week is that of a fourteen-year-old boy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arden Sherwood of this city.

Last September while out hunting with a small rifle, the boy was shot in the mouth while blowing the smoke out of the barrel of the gun. The discharge, of course, was an accident. The bullet penetrated the roof of his mouth, and the boy insists from the nature of the pains which followed the wound, and which he had never been free of until lately, that it passed to the back of his head and lodged there. The doctors probed for the bullet but were unable to extract it. About eight months have elapsed since the accident occurred, and during that period the boy has suffered intensely at times, and more or less all the time. Sometimes he has been confined to his bed for days, and then again he would be about the house, and at other times go with his father to the shop, or on the delivery wagon. At certain periods the pain would be so acute that he would cry out in distress. His parents lived in constant fear of derangement of the mind, and his father especially looked for symptoms of this nature constantly.

The advisability of taking the boy to Chicago, and having an operation performed was seriously discussed. But finally Mrs. Little, who is a Scientist, while at the home of the Sherwoods one day, suggested that the boy have Christian Science treatment. The family agreed to it, and Mrs. J. W. Tower, of this city, took charge of the case. A few days after treating him the pain began to subside. Last Saturday was the eighth day. In the morning, after Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood had been up but a short time, they heard a startling exclamation from the boy who was upstairs. Mr. Sherwood rushed to the foot of the stairs, and saw his boy standing at the top of the stairway with a wild unnatural expression on his countenance, and both arms extended in the air. The first thing which entered his mind upon seeing the boy, was that his worst fears were realized, and that the long-expected attack of insanity had come. His fears were soon dispelled, however, when the boy produced the bullet with which he had been shot, and described where it came from. He had felt a tickling sensation in one nostril, and drawing in his breath quickly through his nose, something dropped into his throat. This caused him to cough, and out came the bullet. The boy was so rejoiced that he danced with delight, and could hardly express himself, while his parents were relieved of a load which has been weighing heavily upon them ever since the shooting occurred. All pain has left the boy and he seems to be fully recovered.

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