Testimony of Healing July 24, 1902 Issue

In September, 1900, after having spent the summer almost...

J. D. G. K.

In September, 1900, after having spent the summer almost in seclusion on a fruit ranch in western Colorado, I started to my home in the East. For nearly two years I had been traveling, searching diligently for a location where I might regain my lost health. Overwork had brought on nervous prostration, and my sufferings were intense.

It was with a feeling of bitter disappointment that I turned my face homeward the morning of this September day. While waiting for the stage which was to convey me to the nearest railroad station, I reviewed the results of this summer's isolation from friends and the expense attached thereto. I could see but little improvement in my condition. I had decided that before leaving the state I would visit an old school friend whom I had not seen for many years.

I had not been in her house an hour before she told me that she had accepted Christian Science. I cannot express my feeling of disgust that she had left the good old orthodox faith in which we had both been so strictly trained, and accepted a belief that I had always looked upon as dangerous and almost sacrilegious. However, on Sunday I went to church with her, not expecting to get any good out of it, but with a desire born of curiosity to see just how that sect worshiped God. All the week I could scarcely think or talk of anything but my friend's foolish departure from the old faith. I did my best to prove to her that she had not Bible authority for her views.

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