Testimony of Healing October 29, 1904 Issue

I became interested in Christian Science nearly five...

A. J. Darnell

I became interested in Christian Science nearly five years ago through the healing of my wife. She had what the doctors called consumption in its last stages. I had tried everything that I could get in the way of materia medica, and every doctor would tell me nearly the same story about her case. At last they only recommended for her a higher, drier climate, and when she would be at her worst to give her something to quiet her. This was the only thing they knew to do until she should pass on. The last three or four years of suffering, she was confined to her bed from three to eight weeks, and from two to three times a year, and there she would suffer with constipation, lung fever, hemorrhages of the lungs, until she could not speak above a whisper, for eight or ten weeks.

I tried different climates, but she was no better, indeed worse. At last she struggled along until the first of March, 1899. She had taken to her bed again. For two days and nights she suffered, and I called a physician. He came and diagnosed the case, and said that he could do nothing for her, but give her some morphine tablets to make her rest. I gave her two of them according to direction, and just before the time to give her the third, she called me to her bedside, and said, "Don't give me any more of that stuff, for it does me more harm than good," so I turned and placed them in the fire, though I did not then know anything about Christian Science. We had heard of it, but that was all. I gave her the last tablet at eight o'clock that night, and about nine o'clock the next day a lady who had been healed in Christian Science visited her, and introduced her to this great truth. She accepted it and thought she would try it. The lady loaned her Science and Health. She got the book about ten o'clock that day and read it until dinner was called. She ate a hearty dinner, the first in about three days, and that same evening she dressed herself, walked into the dining-room, ate a hearty supper and enjoyed it. She slept well that night. She borrowed this lady's copy of Science and Health two hours each day for eight days, and was healed. The first day that she read Science and Health she weighed about ninety-five pounds. Three months later she weighed one hundred and thirty-five pounds.

I became very much interested in Christian Science through the healing of my wife, which was so quick that to my understanding then, it was a miracle. As for myself, I had no idea that I needed it physically, for I thought that I was as hearty a man as there was anywhere, but I afterwards sought help for a chronic disease which had given me trouble for ten or twelve years. It had never kept me from work, but it was what is termed spinal trouble from kidney disease. I could not even stoop in the least without pain. This trouble was healed in one treatment in Christian Science. I have had some beautiful demonstrations myself, and could testify to many cases that I have seen healed through this great truth that has spread abroad through the work of our Leader, Mrs. Eddy. I realize that when Christian Science entered our door it was the beginning of a Pentecostal feast.

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