Testimony of Healing June 25, 1904 Issue

We are indebted to the Canton (Ill.) Register for the...

We are indebted to the Canton (III.) Register for the following testimony given by Judge Robert H. Lovett of Peoria, III., upon the occasion of his introduction of Bicknell Young, of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, at Canton, III., May 17.—Eds.

The cause of my being a Christian Scientist is that same cause which prompts nearly every good deed performed by man, to wit, a woman; in this instance, my wife. For some time prior to our marriage a dread disease had been fastening itself upon her, and for about three years we doctored with first one physician and then another, but she grew worse and worse.

I would not be understood as saying one word derogatory to any doctor, for they have come into our home with their kind words of sympathy and cheer when their coming has been like a visit of a messenger of love and hope; but their best prescriptions and their kind words did not bring that health for which we so earnestly longed, and for which we patiently waited, and when finally our last physician said that he had exhausted all known remedies, and I asked him if he thought my wife would recover, and he paused and thought and said, "I think so," I then felt that I might expect the worst, and my home was sad and desolate. Then, in the darkest hour of my life, my wife turned to Christian Science, and her healing was miraculous. Immediately the dark clouds of disease, misery, and despair were scattered and destroyed by the sunlight of health and consequent happiness and prosperity. The most beautiful roses that ever bloomed in or out of the Garden of Eden came back to the cheeks of my wife, and her weakened condition gave place to the strength and vigor of youth, to which she was entitled.

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