Testimony of Healing April 8, 1905 Issue

After many years of invalidism, during which all material...

Florence J. Blades

After many years of invalidism, during which all material methods and remedies had failed to give me relief from the intense suffering produced by periodical headaches, I was smitten with an acute attack of bronchitis. One of the most skilful physicians in this city attended me for many weeks, but finally gave up the case, advising an immediate change to a milder climate, and telling me repeatedly, "No power on earth can stop that cough." I was unable to take the long journey, for which arrangements had been hastily made, failed rapidly, and without any doubt whatever was dying, being conscious only at intervals. During one of those intervals, on waking from the almost constant sleep which seemed to be leading toward that which knows no waking on earth, and seeing the grief of my husband who sat beside me, I roused myself and tried to console him, and finally asked him if he would like me to try Christian Science. Frankly, I had neither faith nor hope in its efficacy, but I said it with the thought that afterward it would be comforting to others to remember that nothing had been untried or left undone. A practitioner came at once, and through her understanding that God is Life, I was lifted almost immediately from the "shadow of death," where I lay in darkness, being "bound in affliction and iron." In a few days I was able to sit up, and gained slowly, but steadily, in flesh and in strength. The cough was many months in disappearing, but finally faded away, and there is now no trace of the disease. This healing was nearly five years ago and seemed miraculous to those who knew my condition. Many who are antagonistic to Science and incredulous of its healing, admit its wonderful power in my case. Every member of my family has been benefited through Christian Science. Each one has been very ill and had no other treatment. I can scarcely enumerate the many attacks of disease which it has dissolved into nothingness,—pneumonia, jaundice, measles, rheumatism, fever, headache, diarrhoea in a severe form, valvular heart disease, and many others.

But what shall I say of the daily problems of life, which so perplex us and for which matter has no remedy? Science alone can and does solve them, and help us to conquer fear and sin through the understanding of the Love that casteth out all fear. I am truly grateful, as I have abundant cause to be, to Christian Science, and its Discoverer and Founder.—Florence J. Blades, Kansas City, Mo.

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