Testimony of Healing October 1, 1904 Issue

I first heard of Christian Science some twelve years ago,...

Ella V. Cheney

I first heard of Christian Science some twelve years ago, and was healed of a severe ailment while attending a morning service, that being the only service I ever attended will some four years later. I paid very little attention to it then, although suffering from many diseases, among them rheumatism, sick headache, chronic constipation, weak back, and neuralgia. I dared not eat what I wanted for fear of terrible distress in my stomach. At the birth of my fifth child, a little boy, the attending physician said there was no use in trying to dress the little one, for it could not live longer than a few hours at most. After he had left the house I insisted that the child be dressed and asked my mother if she would care for it, and with the help of a friend she succeeded in getting it cared for. The next day we called the physician and he treated it for some five or six weeks, then gave it up to die. We employed two other physicians, who gave the same verdict. The baby suffered terribly, did not grow, and we could get no food that seemed to agree with him.

After five months of weary watching, waiting, and praying for help in every way except the right way, I was convinced there was no help for him, and I was willing to seek God through Christian Science,was willing to do anything required of me. — if only my child might be spared. I immediately called on a practitioner and asked her to take the case. She said she would not take it until she saw the child, and wanted me to bring him to her. I told her I could not do that as he had never been out of doors and was so feeble that he could not survive the journey, — two and a half miles. She immediately replied, "God is his life." I left her, believing her every word.

On arriving at my home I found that the child had been sleeping naturally for two hours, —the first natural sleep he had everhad. He slept quietly until o'clock in the morning when I awakened him to feed him and he was healed. He has remained healthy and strong, and we have had another little son born to us; he has never taken any medicine, and is seven years old. We have six children, and from that day till this I have never taken any medicine nor used it for the five younger children.

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