Testimony of Healing September 5, 1903 Issue

I have often thought that I ought to make some return...

C. A. H.

I have often thought that I ought to make some return for the many helpful testimonies I have read in the Journal and Sentinel.

Two and a half years ago I am sure there was not a more miserable person on this globe,—it seemed that I was without hope and without God in the world, having suffered from early childhood with almost every disease that flesh is heir to. I cannot remember the time when I was not taking medicine and suffering pain. I was never free from neuralgia, and for more than forty years prior to 1901 I was a constant sufferer from a complication of diseases. Liver, stomach, and kidney trouble made life such a burden that I would gladly have escaped through death. I was always a delicate child; I never could run and play like other children. I was subject to fainting spells, and the thought was that any unusual exertion brought them on. This error seemed to grow with my years. Rheumatism with its companion, sleeplessness, kept me in bondage for years, scarcely allowing the closing of my eyes in sleep for weeks at a time.

In the summer of 1900 I was stricken with paralysis; then all former troubles seemed to me as nothing in the face of this almost helplessness. I had not been under a physician's care for more than thirty years. I feared doctors, as some of the best had said that I could never be well without at least two operations, as there was a growth on my liver, and my kidneys were badly deranged, and something must be done for my stomach. There were also many other chronic troubles, so I gave up doctors and took my own case. I certainly took medicine by the pound and quart.

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