Testimony of Healing October 8, 1904 Issue

Two and a half years ago, while living in Waterville,...

Forrest E. Lander

Two and a half years ago, while living in Waterville, Me., I first learned of Christian Science. I had suffered for a year all the tortures of locomotor ataxia, and had employed the best medical aid I could get. Two of the doctors had extensive hospital practice and talked very encouragingly at first, when I went to them for help, but after a short time they said, as had several other doctors, "Incurable; may live for years but will gradually grow worse, and liable at any time to become perfectly helpless." I could not walk a step if any one was looking at me, and could do no work, only what might be done while sitting down.

This was my hopeless condition when Christian Science treatment was recommended to me, and I found that "man's extremity is God's opportunity," as I soon began to feel better. After a few months' treatment and reading of the literature I began to attend the meetings, riding both ways. Many and beautiful were the lessons I learned in the little hall where God led His faithful ones, step by step.

After a while I began to walk home from the meeting, — nearly a mile, — and a few weeks later I walked both ways and could say that I felt perfectly well. I could work all day, standing up most of the time, with no bad results. The tobacco habit left me when I began treatment, and things I once loved I now have no use for. The Bible has become a daily companion, also Science and Health. We have a number of Mrs. Eddy's books and other Christian Science literature in our home.

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