Testimony of Healing May 21, 1904 Issue

When we get the true healing, the error is so completely...

EUNICE E. HIGDON

When we get the true healing, the error is so completely erased from our consciousness that the remembrance of former disease and suffering is wholly obliterated, and it is well that it is so. I find this to be so in a great measure, in the healing of my husband, as related in the above testimony. There is so much connected with his case that I feel there should be more of the details given.

Just before taking Christian Science treatment, he seemed to grow worse each day. He gave up his law practice and spent the days seeking relief. He was barely able to walk about the house, and was so peevish and unreasonable in his requirements of food and medicine as to keep the entire household in confusion. In every room was medicine, and a new remedy would be added almost every day. He had medicine in bottles and in packages; he had it in his pockets, and it was at his plate on the dining-table, and by his bedside at night. He drank hot water, and then he drank cold water; he bathed in cold water, in hot water, and for a time in the ocean. He had an exercising machine in his room; a saddle-horse was brought to our door at six o'clock each morning, on which he would ride, when able, before eating his frugal morning meal. His meals had to be prepared according to his daily whims, and his many changes in the bill of fare caused many changes of cooks. There was a time he ate baked oyster-shells after they were powdered; again, the powdered shells would be mixed with wine, and this diet was supposed to restore the "lost" lining of the stomach. After eating anything, he would be in such pain that he would frequently remove the food from his stomach with a stomach-pump, and, as might be expected, he became greatly emaciated, impatient, and nervous. His weight was just half what it is now. At last the doctor said there was no hope, but to try traveling West. We packed up and went West on a little trip through the mountains. He tried bathing in the waters of Salt Lake, drank many kinds of mineral waters, but all to no purpose.

Discouraged, we were ready to return to our home in St. Louis, when my husband was induced to take Christian Science treatment. The result of that treatment is given above, and I must say that we have lived eight of the happiest years of our lives, in which no doctor has been called nor has any material remedy been used in our home.

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