Testimony of Healing January 16, 1902 Issue

For a long time I have felt it was my duty to contribute...

E. G. C.

For a long time I have felt it was my duty to contribute something to the Journal or Sentinel, in the hope that it might be of benefit to some poor erring one like myself.

I first heard of Christian Science a number of years ago, but had no desire to investigate it, in fact, I felt a sense of contempt for any one who thought they could be cured by imagining they were well. I could not understand why, if God knew all,—and the churches, or rather church members, taught that He did,—that He should take from their midst the very ones who promised to become the most useful and good members of their flock. I was fast drifting toward agnosticism. But the time came two years ago when I felt that I needed some power higher than human power to lift me out of the depth of despair into which I had fallen.

I got out our old dusty Bible and tried to get some comfort, but to no purpose. My business was failing; I was fast becoming overwhelmed with debts; I was willing to work and did work day and night trying to overcome them; but the more I wriggled the deeper in I got. The severest blow to me was when materia medica told me I was about to lose my wife. I was willing to give up all, that she might be spared me. The physicians told me she had heart failure and could live but a few months. I tried to be cheerful and to keep her so, but on account of my business worries and my worry over her trouble I was rapidly losing my own health and felt the time was fast approaching when I should be without business, without wife, without home.

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