Testimony of Healing March 4, 1905 Issue

Six years ago I suffered from a complication of diseases,...

E. R. Jerger

Six years ago I suffered from a complication of diseases, three of which the physicians pronounced incurablecatarrh, coughing, and constipation. In a year and a half I had twelve spells of nervous prostration, and after every attack the doctors would say, "You will not live through another one of them." I then underwent an aperation at the hospital, and after three weeks' treatment the doctors said they could do no more for me, and I went back to my old home to die. I had not heard of Christian Science before, and when it was brought to me I but half trusted it. I thought that if what it claimed to do was true, I would work out my own problem, so I bought Science and Health, but at that time I thought it a very high—priced book. The chapter on "Prayer" was a revelation to me, and in three months I was healed of all my ailments but one—the cough. Two years later this also left me, and has never returned. I have proved that Christian Science does heal through the demonstration of Truth. It has also taught me to love my neighbor as myself. It has uncovered to me different forms of error which I have been able to overcome with God's help.

These beautiful words from the Christian Science hymnal helped me a great deal,—

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