Testimony of Healing April 10, 1902 Issue

I feel compelled to write my testimony and hope that...

Richard A. Cooke

I feel compelled to write my testimony and hope that I may be accepted as one more witness to the Truth as contained in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

In the year 1883 I first heard of Christian Science. I was sitting in a saloon in Leadville, Col., reading a daily paper of that place. My eyes lighted upon an article which spoke of some peculiar people in Boston who claimed to have discovered how to heal as Jesus healed. I do not remember much of the article, but those words stayed with me. I said within myself, "If they only heal as Jesus did, they have me converted right away." From that moment a change seemed to come over my life. I had more control over myself and I commenced to shake off some of the bad habits into which I had fallen.

I had drifted out to Colorado from New York City (my home), where I had been under the treatment of many leading physicians. The last one, who was too honest to take my money knowing that he could not cure me, advised me to keep away from doctors and quit taking medicine, as nothing but death could cure me. My trouble was pronounced by some to be Bright's disease, by others gravel on the kidneys with very acute inflammation of the bladder and prostate gland. I was a constant sufferer; I did not know what freedom from pain meant. I had lost all hope of faith in God, in fact I had become an infidel. I surely was without hope and without God in the world, when that ray of light came to me.

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