Testimony of Healing December 17, 1904 Issue

It is now nearly six years since I began studying the...

Katie Ohrt with contributions from Virginia Elliott

It is now nearly six years since I began studying the text-book of Christian Science, and I would like to tell what it has done for me and my family. It has taught me the truth, and I have been striving to understand it more and more all the time. I know now that God is all power, and I am very thankful for the understanding I have of God's revelation through Christian Science. The doctors told me that I had lung trouble, that one lung was almost gone, and that I would have to take medicine three times a day, else I would not live long. Christian Science has healed me of this trouble and I no longer ever think of taking medicine for anything. I have also been healed of constipation, which used to give me a great deal of trouble. Some time ago I had a tooth pulled and it quite surprised the doctor to see how little pain there was. We have three children in our family and they all love to study Christian Science. They never think of going to bed without repeating their little prayers.

I am very grateful to Mrs. Eddy for giving us Science and Health. I know that the way will become brighter as I continue to gain more understanding of the truth that has come to us through her.—Mrs. Katie Ohrt, Manning, Ia.

There was a long, dismal waste of night in which I had little hope of any good in this world. I could only lie upon my pillow and, looking up through the window, watch the clouds arrange themselves in the sky. In this state of captivity I would search the past and apply every theory I had ever read or heard of to find the cause of my broken health. Drugs had ceased to work, dieting had become actual starvation, sounds were a terror to me at all times. All that could be done for me in my own home, had been done, and yet "all was vanity and vexation of spirit." The sentence of invalidism for life passed upon me by my friends was becoming more real with each storm, so when the night was thickest, the suggestion came to my rainwashed window that a change of climate would do what other remedies had failed to accomplish,—a rarer atmosphere, a higher altitude where malaria was unknown My trouble was nervous prostration, and dread of malaria was one of its noxious growths. There came a morning when the sun made the pinnacles of "Old Cheyenne" stand out sharp and clear. A new-found friend leaned over the sweet-pea hedge between us and told me, oh, so timidly, that my sentence of death was not lawful, was not of God, and that I could go and see. I did go and see. I gave myself up to the wonderful Christ Science for correction. I learned of its laws, its Principle, its revelations. I rejoiced, I walked, I ate, I slept, I did whatever duty demanded with no ill results. I shall never forget the sunshine of that morning, that dawn, that awakening.

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