For three years I was afflicted with what the doctors had...

Mary Davis Joiner, Frank Gray Shaver

For three years I was afflicted with what the doctors had diagnosed as floating kidney, resulting, the attending physician said, in tuberculosis of the bowels. I had seven of the best physicians of the city at different times, and two specialists pronounced my case incurable without an operation, and said that recovery would be doubtful even if the operation were successful. As the condition of my heart would not allow my taking an anesthetic, the operation was out of the question, and the physicians said that I might die at any moment. At length I was taking heart stimulants three times a day, and frequently a physician was hastily summoned during the night for sudden attacks of the heart. I was afraid to sleep, for sleep seemed to be merely a trance-like condition in which I was semi-conscious but could not move. I felt that I should go insane through fear.

I was finally induced to try Christian Science, and was completely healed in two weeks' treatment. I at once began taking care of my own rooms, whereas I had not been able before even to lift a chair. During the treatment, glasses which I had worn for nine years, on account of astigmatism, were laid off, and I have never worn them since. My healing occurred in October, 1901, and these conditions have never returned.

Mary Davis Joiner, Indianapolis, Ind.

About two years ago I was restored from a condition of total invalidism to perfect health through Christian Science. I had been an intense sufferer for seven months with rheumatism in its most violent forms, inflammatory and muscular, including sciatica. I had been under medical treatment all the time and had tried all material systems and cures of which I knew, including electricity, massage, and mineral baths, with the result that I was no better physically and I had added to my list of afflictions nervous prostration, which rapidly grew worse until I seemed to be losing my mind. Materia medica could offer me no hope, and I had nothing to look forward to but insanity or death, and probably both in their turn. Now I had known about Christian Science nearly eleven years,—in fact a copy of Science and Health had been given to me in 1896, but I had never read it,—and I was not unfriendly towards this Science; on the contrary, I had on several occasions recommended it to friends of mine who needed help, and had seen its good results. During the seven months that I was ill, Christian Science treatment was often suggested to me by relatives and friends, but I did not want to hear about it, and it was not until I had no hope left that I finally consented to try it. I was healed of the nervous prostration in two treatments and in less than ten days I was a well woman. All the mental and physical suffering which I had had for months left me and I was free. My healing occurred in the month of September, 1903, and in June, 1904, I went to medical examiner of one of the large life insurance companies, and he, knowing the facts of my past illness, after having made three different examinations, several days intervening, recommended me to the company as a first-class risk for a ten-thousand-dollar policy and I received my policy without further question. This ought to be satisfactory evidence of a complete healing, to those who look at it from a standpoint of materia medica.

Christian Science has brought more to me than mere physical healing. It has healed me of sin, and brought harmony into all of my relations in life where formerly there was discord. My heart is full of love and gratitude to God, and to Mrs. Eddy for the many blessings that have come to me through the revelation of Christian Science. My desire is to know more of this truth and to live it.

Miss Frank Gray Shaver, Chicago, Ill.

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