Testimony of Healing April 2, 1904 Issue

As an expression of gratitude for the many blessings...

H. R. P.

As an expression of gratitude for the many blessings Christian Science has brought to me, I wish to give the following testimony. About fourteen months ago, while visiting a friend, I was taken violently ill with all the symptoms of pneumonia. Several years before I had had this disease and with nearly fatal results, and since that time had more or less fear of its return, and like Job, the thing I feared came upon me.

After passing through a night of intense suffering, a practitioner, seventy miles away (we lived in the country) was sent for. She arrived in a few hours and found me, to mortal sense, in a most alarming condition. Both lungs were attacked, and breathing was so difficult and painful that every breath was a struggle. After her arrival the relief was almost instantaneous, and in a short time I was able to lie down and sleep peacefully. In three or four days I was up and around as usual and took quite a long drive during which a heavy shower of rain fell, and although I was quite well protected from it, a great fear of relapse came, and the next day it seemed necessary to send for the practitioner again. She came and there was no relapse, and in a short time I was as well as usual.

Years before, when suffering from the same disease though not in so severe a form,—under materia medica I was confined to my bed about three weeks, had the most sparing diet, took quantities of medicine, including a great amount of whiskey to stimulate me. Under Christian Science with much more severe symptoms, I was up in three days, and with no medicine but Truth.

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