A Case of Healing of Paralysis

Adlai T. Ewing

Fifteen years ago, I lost my voice. I did not emit a tone for six months. An eminent Chicago specialist examined my throat and said that one of my vocal chords was paralyzed. My family physician, after he had treated me for some time, took me to the specialist, at whose hands I suffered great torture through the use of arsenic and local applications of electricity. I was finally dismissed by him without any benefit having been received, and told that he could do nothing further to help me.

After this I did some traveling, but without benefit. Then, in sheer desperation, I went to a Christian Scientist, who not long before this time had come to Chicago from Boston. My healer gave me a treatment each day for thirteen consecutive days, when my voice was fully restored.

The foregoing is a very simple and concise narrative of the general facts. To be more specific, let me say that, fifteen years ago, I was a practising lawyer, with a wife and young children. We were occupying our first home, a new house, with a new mortgage on it. I was meeting with satisfactory success, was fondly planning to rear and educate the dear children, pay the mortgage, and make a reputation as a lawyer and a citizen of which my family at least would approve.

In one day I was stricken dumb—deprived of the power of speech. I soon saw my clientage disappear, and I became thoroughly alarmed for the future of self and family. I urged my family physician to greater diligence and skill; he soon doubted his ability to help me and took me to the specialist, one who through his contributions to medical literature and acquiring a large and lucrative practice, had become eminent in his profession. After a very careful diagnosis, he pronounced my trouble to be paralysis of a vocal chord.

Then began a long and painful series of tortures of one kind and another. However, let me say for this kind doctor, that he was very desirous, even anxious, to help me, and, literally, exhausted the resources of his skill in my behalf. He, like many another noble man of his profession, has given all his time and energy to acquiring knowledge along the lines of materia medica.

After weeks and weeks of this kind of treatment, without the slightest indication of relief, the specialist told me that he knew of nothing further that could be done to help me. Thus given up by this eminent representative of a special branch of the medical profession, I felt hopeless and helpless, as if a stone wall of despair had been built about me. In this condition of mental agony, and in the desperation of despair, I went to a Chrsitain Scientist, expecting nothing, and so declaring myself. In thirteen days, with a treatment each day, my voice was fully restored to me.

My healer did not at that time tell me that it was divine Love that brought me relief from the dreadful fears which had enslaved me and held me in such tyrannous bondage. Perhaps if she had told me I would have been as one of the nine lepers who had been healed by the Master, and went away, and stayed away, in ungrateful forgetfulness of acknowledgment. I am sure I should have refused its ministration as something likely to disturb my established religious convictions.

While I look back upon this demonstration of the power of Truth to heal and to restore as the most remarkable of all my experiences to relate, yet I have since experienced many demonstrations, through the healing of sickness, and sin, and sorrow, of the power, willingness, and goodness of God.

I have learned how to invoke this power and gain its benefits now and always, through an understanding of the Truth, as revealed in Science and Health and the other writings, sayings, and doings of the dear Mother, to whom I lovingly yield constant gratitude and obedience.

Adlai T. Ewing, Chicago, Ill.

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