Testimony of Healing November 12, 1904 Issue

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science...

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I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for the many blessings that have come to me and my family from the blessed Christ-Truth revealed to our age through Mary Baker G. Eddy. I had been under the physician's care for nine years, and going to Atlantic City to stay a couple of weeks, I was taken very ill with nervous prostration and was unable to leave for eleven weeks. The doctor said that I was very anæmic,—my blood filled with uric acid, and all of the organs in a weakened state. He was a homæopathist and wrote to a specialist of the same school in my city, under whose care I was placed. He gave me electricity three times a week, together with medicines, which I continued taking for three months. As there was also an internal trouble, it was thought better to consult with my former allopathic specialist. He said I was a physical wreck and should continue with the electricity, but I should take his medicine and treatment. He prescribed ozonate-lithia water and a diet with a laxative every night.

One day while in a most perplexed state of thought, as I seemed to be getting worse instead of better, I went to see some friends who were Christian Scientists. These friends spoke of God as Love, and that He did not send distress to His dear children. The conversation impressed me so that I spoke of it to my husband's mother, who loaned me the two volumes of Science and Health published in 1883. After reading them I was convinced that Christian Science was true. I sent for a practitioner and was healed in ten treatments, and gained great joy in deliverance from the bondage of error.

I threw away all the once valued prescriptions and medicines, having two medicine closets full. I was determined that I would no longer break the first commandment, which I had been doing ignorantly, in making gods of material remedies; but would now turn to the one God, "whom to know aright is Life eternal" (Science and Health, Pref. vii.), the great Physician "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases."

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