Testimony of Healing February 25, 1905 Issue

It is about four years since Christian Science first came...

S. Saulser

It is about four years since Christian Science first came to our notice, and we are very grateful for the many benefits received through it. The knowledge we have gained has been through "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. My husband was afflicted with a very severe bowel and stomach trouble, for which he took medicine constantly for five years, but it grew worse all the time, and he was nearing a state of collapse when Christian Science was presented to him. Having tried materia medica without any benefit, he had nowhere else to go, so in his misery he concluded to try Christian Science. He engaged a practitioner, and through her patient and faithful work he was healed,—made whole.

Some two years ago our eldest boy, then a child six years of age, was frightfully burned by falling into a kettle of hot lard which had been taken off the stove only a few moments before. Two places on the body, each as large as a saucer, and also two places on his limbs were burned. When his clothing was removed the skin came off with it from the four places. The child was put to bed, and after half an hour's treatment, he was fast asleep, and rested well all night. In about three days afterwards he was wearing all his clothing again. He never made any complaint of the burns whatever. From all appearances he suffered no pain, and in about ten days the burned places were all smoothly healed over and no scars at all were left.

A year and a half later, this same boy went with his father to close the gates of a large dam. He was playing around the edge of the water. A large log had drifted where the dam was full of water and lodged on the sluiceway, and while his father was working to spring the gates so that the log would go down, he called to the boy to go away from the water. Instead of going directly to his father, the boy came up between the water and the log. At this time the gates sprang open, the log was loosed and rolled onto the child and crushed him down in the mud. His father looked around, and did not see the boy, but seeing his hat afloat on the water, he declared that no harm could come to God's child. At this time he was thirty feet distant from the boy, but he sprang from the top of the dam and over the log into the water, up to his waist, and caught the boy by his arm and pulled him out of the mud and water. He was brought home, a mile and a half in a cold rain, washed and dressed and ate his dinner, and in an hour he was out at play.

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