It is with a sense of duty to God as well as to my fellow-man,...

It is with a sense of duty to God as well as to my fellow-man, that I undertake to write this testimony, hoping that it may give cheer to some one who is now discouraged. About the beginning of last summer my little girl, thirteen years old and our only child, became ailing, and in spite of all we could do for her continued to grow thinner and weaker. Her school was only a few steps from our house, and she was very anxious to finish her school work, but I was ashamed to see people turn and look at her on the street. She was so thin and weak it did not seem as though her poor little limbs would hold her up. When at home she would not eat anything to speak of, and when she did she would throw it right up. The last of June the school closed, and she seemed to give quite out and wanted to lie down all the time. At night she was delirious. On July 4 we went away, but had to return, she was so sick, and I had to carry her from one train to the other, as she could not walk. Friday, July 8, the physician that we called in made an examination, took her pulse and temperature, and said, when he came from the room, "I am sorry to tell you that you are going to lose your daughter. Her lungs are both gone, or at least one is entirely affected and the other nearly so." He told us she had quick consumption, and that it would be cruel to make her take medicine that could do her no good, but that he would leave her something to make her sleep nights.

We were desperate. I had, however, been reading some Christian Science literature for a few months and believed in it, as I had seen a little girl, afflicted the same as my own was, restored; so I at once sought some who were acquainted with it, and such words of comfort and love as they spoke to me I shall never forget. They directed me to a practitioner, whom I went to see, and I was told by her that we must not use the opiate. I went home to talk it over with my wife. All this time my dear child was coughing and raising constantly. I went to the Wednesday night meeting, July 13, and after the meeting I requested the practitioner to give my daughter treatment. When I got home she had stopped coughing and I do not think I heard her cough again. The next day she commenced to eat, and it seemed as though she could not get enough. She would get up in the night and eat. July 20, just one week from the time she was treated, there was to be a picnic twenty-seven miles away, to which she wanted to go. I said, "God will take care of her," so she and her mother went. She came home feeling fine. She got weighed that day and her weight was fifty-nine pounds. To-day, november 26, she weighs seventy-nine pounds, and is a healthy child. About a week after I requested treatment, I went to the meeting, at the close of which I handed the practitioner the customary fee for one week's treatment. She insisted on my taking all but. one dollar back, as she said she had given but one treatment, and said that the rest did not belong to her.

I am very grateful to our loving Father that this dear child has been spared to us, and I am also very grateful to that loving, loyal woman, Mrs. Eddy.

Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE
Testimony of Healing
I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science, and...
August 12, 1905
Contents

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit