Testimony of Healing December 10, 1904 Issue

I wish to express my heartfelt thanks for benefits received...

L. Cooper

I wish to express my heartfelt thanks for benefits received through a knowledge of Christian Science, gained by the earnest study of the Bible and Science and Health, also the periodicals of Christian Science. We were attracted to Christian Science by the healing of some of our neighbors,—cases that were pronounced very difficult to heal and which had received no permanent benefit from doctors or medicine. I was then a member of an orthodox church and was very reluctant to give Christian Science an impartial investigation. I thought in my blindness that it was not of God. After being "beaten with many stripes" and after I had seen many convincing proofs that God's ways are higher than man's ways,—then I was willing to turn to Christian Science, but not until by a sad experience we were forced to leave all for Christ, Truth. The turning-point was reached when our little girl, then four years old, was taken with what the doctors called diphtheritic membranous croup, from the effects of which she succumbed. Our other and only little girl, who was eight years old, was then taken very ill and the doctor said she was just like the first, who had lived only five days. The first one died on Friday, and we had the doctor on Saturday with the other, but he gave no hope or encouragement. We appealed to a Christian Science practitioner Sunday morning, and we have our child with us now. Since that time we have been sustained by Truth, independent of material remedies.

Words are inadequate to express our thanks to God and to Mrs. Eddy for the many blessings received by us. We have had many proofs of God's loving kindness and some beautiful demonstrations for ourselves and others. I desire to be a faithful servant in the Master's vineyard.

L. Cooper, Gober, Tex.

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