Testimony of Healing March 14, 1901 Issue

Restored to Home and Friends

J. V. Long

When I first heard of Christian Science the outlook seemed very dark. My health had been slowly failing for over fifteen years on account of weak heart, grip, malaria, liver trouble culminating in extreme nervousness and weakness, and a throat trouble which I greatly feared would turn into consumption. I had to give up all business, not being able to do the lightest kind of work, mental or physical. A few among the many treatments tried were allopathic, homoeopathic, electric, magnetic, spiritual mediums, osteopathic. Finally a leading physician of New York City informed me that my only hope was in an immediate change of climate. I went to Arizona and Southern California, taking a relative with me, as I was too weak to travel alone. I improved a little at first and then came to a standstill, feeling that climate had also failed me. I was among strangers, far from home, full of aches, pains, fears, anxieties. About this time Christian Science was recommended by the lady I was boarding with. I was not much impressed at first, but shortly after a fellow boarder and health—seeker informed me that he had received immediate relief from a severe trouble of long standing from a practitioner whom our landlady had recommended. I soon began to take treatment. No improvement was noticed at first, but in about a week I examined my tongue, which had been heavily coated for years. Imagine my surprise to find it perfectly clean. Insomnia was soon after destroyed; an improvement was noticeable in my appetite, and my nervousness diminished.

At the beginning of treatment I could only read about half an hour at a time and that only twice a day. In three or four months I was able to read practically all day. One of the most disagreable and annoying troubles that affected me was a soreness of the hip—bones which prevented me from sitting long at a time and obliged me to lie down or recline in a hammock a great deal. This trying soreness began to grow less and less, and in seven or eight months I could sit all day if I wished. The throat trouble which I greatly feared would terminate in consumption, vanished completely. For years my body was covered with liver spots; they have disappeared. Many other troubles have vanished.

It is now over two years since Christian Science found me and I have not taken a drop of medicine during that time. My medicine bill used to run as high as fifteen dollars per month, not counting physicians' fees, which have ranged from one dollar to thirty dollars per visit. Christian Science has enabled me to return to my home, business, and friends; to be a help and comfort in the family where I had been a source of worry and anxiety. I have now been home a year and a half, gaining in health and strength, showing that we do not have to go to another climate for health. My healing has been slow—it is not yet complete—but enough has been done to make me feel deeply grateful to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Also to the kind and loving healers who have labored long and patiently to bring me into the Truth. I am also very thankful to the lecturers and all connected with the Quarterly, Journal, and Sentinel.

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