Testimony of Healing April 22, 1905 Issue

I feel it a great privilege to give my testimony of the...

Carrie A. Hall

I feel it a great privilege to give my testimony of the healing which I have received through Christian Science. Four years ago I came to Jacksonville very unhappy, as I was in such poor health, and had been for six years, that I had given up all hope of ever getting well. My husband was also very much disturbed and discouraged, as he was not very strong and my condition never helped him, since about all he would ever hear from me, on his arrival home from work, were expressions of the pain and misery which I seemed obliged to endure. We then knew nothing of Christian Science, but we rented rooms of a Christian Scientist, not knowing at that time that she was one. We had lived there but a few weeks when I began to relate to her my troubles. We had by this time learned that she was a believer in Christian Science, so I asked her what Christian Science was. She began to tell me something about it, and she also told me I could be healed. It seemed very new to me, but I drank in all of it I could, and a few days later another Scientist came to call on me and gave me a few more crumbs and made arrangements for me to go to a practitioner who was also in the neighborhood. I did so and took one week's treatment. I was healed and was at once able to do work which I had before thought impossible for me to do. I can never express in words my gratitude for the sweet peace and great spiritual uplifting which I received with the physical healing. Before coming to Christian Science I was not able to walk any distance without great fatigue, and sometimes with worse results than that. I very often had spells when I was confined to my bed for a week or more, and would suffer untold agony. I was told by different doctors that I must keep off my feet all I possibly could, and after the birth of our little girl I seemed to be in a worse condition than before. One of the leading physicians of Keokuk, Ia., had told me I never would be any better without having an operation performed, so arrangements were made for one; but something happened to prevent it, and I can now thankfully say that the only operation that has taken place has been wrought by divine Love, thus proving the Scriptural statement that God's "hand is not shortened, that it cannot save."

During the one week's treatment which I received I was also cured of constipation of several years' standing. I will mention a few of the ills which Truth has overcome in our family: whooping cough, measles, fever, sore throat, ulcerated tooth, varicocele, headaches, colds, corns, bunions, and a very bad case of poisoning manifested through our dog.

I can never be too grateful to God, and to Mrs. Eddy who has so faithfully and lovingly delivered His message of life and peace to a waiting and hungering world. I am indeed grateful for the helpful articles in the Sentinel and Journal. These dear messengers of Love have often come to me at a time when I greatly needed them and have led me through the storms of error into the sunshine of Truth. My husband and I have been enabled to overcome a great many errors. We are also very grateful to Christ Jesus who labored to make clear to mankind this great truth which, when rightly applied, destroys all evil and reveals the omnipresence of God, good. I must again say, "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."—Mrs. Carrie A. Hall, Jacksonville, Ill.

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