Testimony of Healing October 8, 1904 Issue

When this blessed truth was brought to me I was discouraged...

F. D. Wakeman

When this blessed truth was brought to me I was discouraged and disheartened with what I saw before me; namely, lots of work and no health or strength with which to do it. Life had no bright spots and I toiled on, half the time crying as I worked, praying every day that God would show me the way out of this misery and suffering, and He did through a dear sister who brought to my home Science and Health.

At this time I was to sense suffering with a constant pain in my left side, caused, the doctor said, by coughing and straining the muscles, after a severe attack of the grip which I had three times. The left arm seemed to have no strength in it, and I could not sweep the floor, for something about the motion would cause me to cough and seemed to make the pain more severe. My sister kept reading Science and Health to me, and in three days I discovered that I was free, my arm being all right and the pain in my side gone. This was five years ago and it has never returned; of course it could not, for God never made it and in reality it never did exist.

The next temptation was a case of typhoid pneumonia, manifested in my sixteen-year-old son. This I tried to destroy for him, but became conscious that fear was touching me, so called an olden Scientist to treat him, one whom I thought had a better understanding of this truth. By this time the neighbors were becoming alarmed and said there would be no boy there in the morning, and that we were letting him die, — doing nothing for him. The Scientist took the case, and the next day he was better. The third day he came down stairs and was perfectly healed without any drugs or material help, and is now a faithful student of Science and Health. I have also seen scarlet fever, which was seeming to manifest itself on my son and son-in-law, overcome with two treatment, and many other ailments, such as a crushed foot, sick headache, and stomach trouble which I had spent much time and money to cure and for which I never got any permanent help until I found Christian Science, — all have vanished. I had taken medicine from childhood for my stomach and suffered untold agony. Now I wonder why I have waited so long and been so selfish, not to proclaim this truth to the world, and I ask myself if I have been grateful enough for my healing.

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