Testimony of Healing September 24, 1904 Issue

About two years ago I was taken very sick and a...

Alice Deitz with contributions from Adelaide F. Fryar

About two years ago I was taken very sick and a physician was called in who said I had cerebro-spinal meningitis in its worst form, but he thought he could help me. I began to get worse instead of better, and was not able to leave my bed for five months. I could not raise my head from my pillow without its causing me terrible pain, and ice was kept on the back of my neck day and night. After suffering for some time I was able to be up and around the house. I had not been up more than four weeks when I was stricken down again, and for three months more I lay in bed suffering that dreadful pain. I was so nervous that I would almost scream if any one walked across the floor or talked to me. There were weeks at a time that I could not get any sleep. The doctors gave me some very powerful medicine, but it did no good. All they would allow me to eat was beef tea and milk, and I could not take that without its distressing me, so they said that I had an ulcer of the stomach. As I did not improve any, my physician said that he could do no more for me, and he would like to have a specialist see me. The specialist came, but he could not help me. I was discouraged and the way grew so dark that I seemed to see the shadow of death drawing nearer and nearer.

One day as I lay there in bed, God sent one of His children to me. She came and talked with me, and asked me if I would not like to be healed in Christian Science. I told her that I had not the faith to believe in it, and did not think it could help me. She then bade me good-by and left me. She had not been gone more than two hours when all that terrible pain from which I had been suffering for the past eight months left me. I felt so much better that the next day I sent for a practitioner. She came, gave me a treatment, and the next day I got out of bed, dressed myself, and ate dinner with the rest of the family. I had only four week's treatment and was healed.

It is over a year since I was healed, and I feel better than I ever did. My friends are pleased to see how I have gained, and I am thankful each day to God and to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, also to the practitioner who led me to this bright and blessed path. I know that infinite Mind is all, and I read the Bible and Science and Health every day, and learn therefrom that God is ever present and ready to help, and I trust in Him. My faith is planted on a rock that is immovable. — Alice Deitz, Glenwood, N. Y.

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