Testimony of Healing April 29, 1905 Issue

When I first heard of Christian Science, I had been...

M. Edith Elkins

When I first heard of Christian Science, I had been in a hospital for fourteen months and had not turned out of one position for seven months. I had been sick with a fever, there was every evidence of my having been salivated, abscesses forming as a result of the poison, and in opening the abscesses the muscles in both limbs below the knees had been severed, both feet dropped down, the joints in knees and ankles stiffened, and I had no control of my limbs at all. When a patient in the bed next to mine told me of Christian Science and that I could be healed, it did not seem to me that I could get paper and pencil quick enough to write to a practitioner. The doctors broke up the adhesions in the joints six times, the joints stiffening each time; finally a cast was put on the left limb, and later the doctors concluded the limb would have to come off. Christian Science of course broke that law. The physicians said I would never walk; I might be up on crutches, but they thought not. It has been four years, I am at work down town, and there is only a slight show of lameness, which is rapidly passing away. When I first began to walk I used crutches, and walked on a broken ankle for a year and a half, the doctors having left it in that condition when trying to bring motion to the joint. I have been healed of dyspepsia in its worst form; my eyes are perfectly healed, after eight years' dependence upon glasses which the oculist said I would always wear, and dropsy which manifested itself has entirely disappeared. My hair fell out from the fever and the new hair which came in was white; that was overcome, and my hair is now black and very heavy and long.

I am indeed grateful to Mrs. Eddy, that through her understanding we now know so much of Truth. Science and Health is certainly the Key to the Scriptures, for it opens up the Bible as nothing else has ever done.

M. Edith Elkins, Chicago, Ill.

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