Testimony of Healing January 3, 1901 Issue

Shown the Way in Christian Science

E. F. Barrett

The spring of 1887 found me in a very bad condition. I expressed to my friends that I could never live through another winter unless some great change was made. Our family physician had said to my friends that it was a matter of little time with me. Three years before I had a brother pass away with the same disease with which I was afflicted, kidney and lung trouble.

In his last days he said to me, "Do not wait until it is too late before you have something done for you, as I have done." For years I had been troubled with a cough and at times it was severe. After a hard attack of bronchitis my lungs were pronounced by the physician to be diseased, and never afterwards was I free from a cough. Also the kidney trouble grew worse.

My brother's death was a severe experience. His loss was almost unbearable and did not have a tendency to better my physical condition. I employed the best physicians in our city but received no encouragement from them. At last pneumonia appeared, and for days it was a close pull. Finally I rallied, which was a surprise to the physician, as also to my friends. Yet it left me in such a state that life was a burden, death would have been preferable. I felt I was without hope or God in the world.

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