Testimony of Healing May 20, 1905 Issue

Fourteen years ago, I attended my first Christian Science...

E. D. Hazelton

Fourteen years ago, I attended my first Christian Science meeting, but did not go very regularly until some four years later, after I had been cured of a swelled neck of twelve years' standing. After doctoring for a long time with some of the best physicians in my town, and growing worse all the time, I at last gave up all drugs and medicines and was completely cured in three weeks' time by Christian Science. I had another demonstration some five years ago. I started from home one Sunday morning to visit some friends about twelve miles distant. The last mile and a half was up a very steep hill, and when I started on my return trip the wind was blowing very keen at my back, and I soon found myself going at a terrific rate. As I had learned how to ride the bicycle only some three or four weeks before this, and there being no brake on my wheel, I saw no way of stopping it. Faster and faster went my wheel and steeper and steeper grew the hill. My feet flew off the pedals and I was hanging on for dear life. It seemed that I would soon be dashed to pieces; the road was very narrow and stony and there was a deep ditch on either side of it. It began to look very dark to me at this time. I tried to realize the all-power of God as best I could, and soon the chain dropped off and wound around the hind wheel. This brought it to a stop, and not a hair of my head had been harmed.

One morning, some two years ago, I was awakened very early by hearing my mother making a noise in the next room, and on jumping up and running in to her I found her sitting on the floor, vomiting and seemingly in great pain. In just five minutes' time she started back to bed with all the sense of pain gone. She has also been cured of some very severe attacks of grip, colds, and bowel complaint in a short time.

One day, as I was running a power sewing-machine, I turned my head to look at something exciting which was going on in the shop, and as I did so I felt the needle go through my finger. I found that the needle was broken in four pieces, one piece was in the machine and three were in my finger. I pulled the pieces out, and by realizing that divine Mind governs all, the pain left me almost immediately. By the next Monday my finger was as well as ever.

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