Testimony of Healing October 3, 1903 Issue

Last fall, two of our best physicians decided I had a...

Anna B. Pfeiffer

Last fall, two of our best physicians decided I had a tumor, and I was also suffering from bronchial consumption. A room was engaged for me at a hospital in Chicago, but my physician decided I was not equal to the operation, and that I should wait until I got a little more strength, as I coughed until I actually thought I should strangle.

I dreaded the use of opiates, as I felt that when consciousness was gone I should never awaken again this side of the grave. My mother had passed on after an operation for tumor, and I grew up with the thought that I would inherit it and an operation would be the end of it all. I was resigned in a way. I did not understand God then, but I had a sense that God was all, and I never feared Him. I had as many friends who had gone before as I had here, and to leave my husband was my only regret. We were talking over our trouble, and he could not give me up. I said, "Why not try Christian Science? The practitioner here is one of my particular friends, and I esteem her very highly." He went to the telephone and she came and took the case. She had not gotten out of the building. I think, before a seeming load was lifted from my weary brain. Words cannot express my sensation. Needless to say, I investigated, have had the privilege of class instruction, and am now able to laugh at the fears I used to hold to, and at all error. My heart goes out in gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for the wonderful enlightenment she has given to us.—Anna B. Pfeiffer, Rantoul, Ill.

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