Testimony of Healing February 18, 1905 Issue

In April, 1898, my physician advised me to make my...

Howard W. Spiker

In April, 1898, my physician advised me to make my will, and make every provision for my four children. My husband had died of consumption the October previous, and the responsibility of the youngest child, then a baby, whom the doctors said had inherited her father's disease, led me to write to my cousin in Friendship. N. Y., asking her to take and care for my little one. This cousin advised me to try Christian Science, and sent me a practitioner's name and address, though she knew how serious my trouble was, as I had been a great sufferer from cancer of the stomach for many years; I cannot, in fact, remember when I was free from pain. This constant suffering had given me a gloomy view of life, and I felt a longing for death, thinking that it would bring me relief. I wrote, however, to the practitioner my cousin mentioned, so that she would feel that I had done all in my power to avert this evil, but without a particle of faith in the result.

The same evening, though I had not felt able to go driving for some time, I had the desire to visit my sister, who lived in another village, ten miles away. On the way there I stopped for my brother and sister, who lived some miles from me, to have them join me. After arriving at my sister's, she prepared a lunch for us, and urged me to partake of the same food the others did, though knowing I had not been able to eat solid food for some time. This seemed like madness to me, for I had not eaten a meal without taking medicine in many years, and I had forgotten to bring any with me; but upon being urged, I ate heartily, and enjoyed the meal without any bad effects. Next morning, after having slept peacefully all night, I had the desire to take a walk in the fresh air, so my sister-in-law accompanied me, wondering all the way at my strength. When we returned we found that we had gone two miles. Needless to say that, with this proof of the uselessness of medicine, on my return home I gathered my bottles together and threw them away.

Next morning I received a letter from the practitioner, saying that he had received my letter, and had given me a treatment on Saturday evening, contrary to my expectations, as I thought he would not receive the letter until Monday. At the same time, I received a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," with instructions to study it, and this turned my thought to the divine source of healing.

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