Testimony of Healing July 22, 1905 Issue

Four years prior to my first knowledge of Christian Science,...

W. G. Killian

Four years prior to my first knowledge of Christian Science, an inner abnormal growth made its appearance. I purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and read it, but not understandingly. In two years from the time I purchased the book, I was taken severely ill with erysipelas and a complication of diseases. My life was despaired of by my family and physician,—one of the best doctors in town,—and my family thought it necessary to have a consultation held. They called in another physician, and the result was the verdict that I could live but a few hours longer. Each member of my family was called in, and my two sons that were three hundred miles away were telegraphed for, but I never once believed that I was going to die. I was in bed nine weeks, and after I was able to get up, the doctor said I would need to have an operation performed, or I could not live long. I asked him if it was very dangerous, and he said it was, but that some few had lived through it. I decided that if I had to die it should be at home with my family, not under the knife. I was taken sick in February, and from from that time on till September, I struggled very hard to live, but it sometimes seemed that I would have to give up. I had a great deal to contend with, which was caused from the abnormal growth.

At last I had to give up, and I told my husband and children that I could not live many more days if I did not get help from some other source. They decided to call in a Christian Science practitioner, and when she came I asked her if she thought I could be healed. She replied that others had been, and that God was no respecter of persons. I told her if she could do anything for me, to do it, that I was so near death I could not help her in any way. I could not even read, I had no appetite, but it was not more than three days after I commenced taking treatment that I had a ravenous appetite,—it just seemed that I could not get enough to eat,—and nothing I ate hurt me. My healing was very slow, but I clung to my only hope. From the first, however, the character of the disease seemed to change, and one after another of the ailments left me, until all had disappeared except the abnormal growth, and that has almost disappeared. I have not taken any medicine since I took this treatment, which was three years ago.

These are only a few of the blessings received; the spiritual uplifting is past description. We are daily experiencing the ever-presence of divine Love, who healeth all our diseases, and we are now enabled to see God, good, reflected everywhere. A new life began for me with Christian Science. The consciousness of man's oneness with God, the assurance of His ever-presence in every detail of life, gives me a feeling of safety and of calm, a comfort and confidence which I had never known before.

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