Testimony of Healing March 28, 1903 Issue

The following testimony was given by Mr. Phillips before...

Phillips

The following testimony was given by Mr. Phillips before the hearing on the bill to interdict the practice of Christian Science which was recently defeated in the North Carolina legislature, and a report of which is given in this issue.—ED.

"It was in 1896, my wife was taken ill, and I called our family physician, Dr. Nicholson of Washington, N. C. He diagnosed the case, and told me that an operation was necessary to save her life, and that it had to be done very quickly. I remonstrated with him, because he insisted that I take her to Baltimore for an operation. I told him I did not think she was able to take the trip. He insisted that she must go. I prevailed on him to call in a consulting physician, and he said that he would. He called in Dr. Dave Taylor. The two made an examination, and retired to the parlor, and I went with them. Dr. Taylor concurred in the diagnosis and said that an operation was necessary. I asked him if he thought she could stand the trip to Baltimore, and he said he thought she could, though I noticed that he said it very reluctantly. I afterwards saw him by myself, and asked him if it would be better to perform the operation there. He said, in his judgment he thought it would be. Dr. Nicholson showed me what the operation consisted of, and what was necessary to be done. It occurred to me that that operation could not be performed, so I decided to take Nicholson's advice and take her to Baltimore. He went with me. We went to the City Hospital after we arrived in Baltimore. Dr. Opie there made an examination, had a consultation, and he said that an operation would be of no permanent benefit to her. He said, however, he might perform a partial operation that might prolong her life, at the farthest, six months, but in her present condition he did not think it advisable to operate upon her. I want to pay a tribute here to the medical profession, because of their conscientious position on that occasion. They were conscientious men, knowing that the fee had been agreed upon and could have been made in a few minutes, they refused to do the work, because they were conscientious, and did not believe that it could result in any permanent benefit to her. The physician I had with me, our family physician, said, 'I do not see anything else for you to do but to try Mrs. Judge Brown's doctor.' She had told us, as she happened to be on the boat, of her cure through Christian Science. I went to the lady, a quiet, unassuming, Christian woman, and told her the circumstances. She said, 'After the physicians have said what they have about your wife, I think you should give her the full benefit of Christian Science.' I did not know what Christian Science was, but I was determined to try it. because there was nothing else left for me to do. I would not have gone to them if there had been any hope whatever anywhere that I could have seen or felt could have been any relief to her. That Christian woman took my wife's case on Tuesday evening. (I neglected to say that she was so ill that she had to be taken to Baltimore on a stretcher), but she took the case on Tuesday evening, and we left Baltimore to go back home, and she was able to walk a very short distance. We went back home on Thursday evening, and on Friday she was able to walk a distance of five blocks to our home, and it was an utter astonishment to her friends to see her walk back home in that condition. In three weeks she was a perfectly well woman, and she has been a perfectly well woman ever since. Of course this wonderful demonstration led me to investigate what could have had such a wonderful influence on a case that was pronounced incurable, and I have investigated the subject honestly and sincerely, and I have found that Christian Science, when understood, is the power of God to heal men from sin and sickness."

Question.—"Mr. Phillips, allow me to ask you a question. What did they do to your wife? What was this demonstration that you speak of?"

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