Testimony of Healing May 31, 1900 Issue

Christian Science an Effectual Remedy

Mabel S. K. Stull

I first heard of Science in 1893. I had then been subject to sick headaches for years. I did not suffer from it all the time but I was in constant fear and would have an attack once a week and sometimes oftener. I also had rheumatism, heart failure, and constipation, often using a box of pills in a single week but without relief. I had taken every known remedy, and received no permanent benefit. I never was without some material remedy until I received treatment from a Christian Science healer in Ulysses, Neb., where I was visiting in 1893. Since that time I have hardly known what it is to take anything. My eyes were also very bad. I could not see after night for weeks at a time, then they would seem to be better for a while. I tried everything I could hear of, as the fear was very great that I would lose my sight. My eyes were left in that condition by an attack of the grip in 1890. One treatment was sufficient to heal them entirely.

I did not accept the teachings of Christian Science until some two years later. I saw no one that believed it, had no Science literature, and had only heard the healer talk two evenings on the subject. In 1895 I had an attack of mountain typhoid fever in Colorado, where I was then living. I had no doctor, and no healer, and did not know how to treat myself, but I had heard the healer say, "God is All-in-all and does not want you to be sick and never intended you to be sick." So I would have no doctor, although my husband begged me to have one. I got over the fever all right, and was only in bed two days all day, when I seemed to be so weak I could not sit up. The rest of the time I ate anything I wanted and walked when I pleased, worked a little, and laid down a good share of the time. I was taken sick on the first day of September, and on the 27th day of the same month my husband had an attack of the same trouble.

Now notice the difference! He said, "Well, here we are both down and no one to take care of us." I said, "No; not both, for I shall get up and take care of you." The neighbors sent the best doctor in the West to see him. He pronounced the case mountain typhoid, said he must have the best of care, and would not let him eat anything but boiled milk and drink boiled water. My husband took medicine every half hour day and night. October 11 he passed away, saying, "If I had only had Science treatment I would have been all right." I came back to my home in Hamilton County, Neb., determined to investigate Christian Science. Thank God I have proved it a great many times. My only guide has been the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

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