Testimony of Healing March 4, 1905 Issue

I was brought up in an orthodox faith, but even in my...

Adolph Berend

I was brought up in an orthodox faith, but even in my youth I rebelled at the thought of a revengeful God, and the idea of a literal hell, with its accompaniment of fire and brimstone, that was constantly held up to me as part of my religious teaching. I gradually drifted away from the chuch, and read the writings of various agnostics with approval. I could not believe in the so—called miracles in the New Testament, and even questioned that such a person as Christ Jesus ever existed. Of one thing only was I satisfied; viz., that a supreme power governs the universe through unchanging laws, and that life is immortal.

A year ago last December I had a very severe attack of sciatic rheumatism, which affected my left leg from the hip to the ankle. For a week I was helpless, and then I began slowly to improve, so that I could go to the city and attend to my affairs, but I could not sleep in comfort, nor could I dress or undress without my wife's assistance. These conditions lasted for four months, when the disease took a turn for the worse, the pain, especially at night, becoming so severe that I found it impossible to rest in bed, and I was compelled to wander about the house, going from lounge to easy—chair, and finding only a few minutes' rest in either. During all this time I had tried a number of remedies, every one of my acquaintances having a different one to suggest, until I came to the conclusion that where there were so many remedies for the same disease, none could be of any value. It was at this time that Christian Science was suggested to me by my wife, but I had only heard it spoken of jest, and I ridiculed the idea of giving it a trial. I promised, however, to call upon a practitioner if my condition did not show any improvement within a week's time. Instead of improving I grew steadily worse, and finally decided to give Christian Science a trial. Science and Health had been loaned me by a friend and I absorbed the truths expounded therein like one athirst in the wilderness. This was the religion I had been looking for, —revealing a God of Love, and a heaven here and now. Surely "man's extremity is God's opportunity." I called upon a practitioner, was healed in one treatment, and have never been troubled since. I had always been fond of smoking, but the appetite instantly left me, nor have I experienced the slightest desire to use tobacco in any form since that time. I had worn eyeglasses for two years, not being able to read without them with any comfort, and small print I could not make out at all. A few weeks after my healing, I decided that the glasses were not necessary, and I found that the demonstration was made,—I had no need of them any more.

My entire family of seven are now interested in Christian Science, and we have all been wonderfully benefited in many ways. Fear, nervousness, worry, indigestion, constipation, and other ailments (notably asthma of thirty years' standing) have been healed through the power of Truth. It has been my joy and privilege to join Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city and to have my oldest son also enrolled in the church membership. I am daily striving to send no thought into the world that will not bless, cheer, or heal; and to rise each day into a higher sense of Life and Love.

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