Testimony of Healing August 19, 1905 Issue

I have enjoyed the blessing of Christian Science for...

J. T. Schulte with contributions from Jane Bell

I have enjoyed the blessing of Christian Science for about six years, and have been so wonderfully helped, both through treatment and the study of our text-book, that I feel it to be my duty to give my testimony to the field. For more than sixteen years I suffered from many ailments. From birth I was subject to cramps in the stomach, and as I grew older a serious trouble developed,—I was in constant distress, and lived mostly on tonics. I tried all kinds of physicians—allopathic, homoeopathic, and specialists. At times I improved slightly, but fell back again, until my nerves became shattered and I was taken home, ill, with what was pronounced nervous exhaustion. This was followed by three shocks of paralysis in one year. The four physicians I had at this time, shook their heads, and it was in this darkness that I prayed to God to heal me if I could be of use here, and if not, to take me. My parents were good Christian people, and when my mother asked me if I were going to die, I answered, No; for I felt there was help for me somewhere. I could not think of anything I had done to deserve so great a punishment. Many a night I cried myself to sleep, thinking there was no God, or that He would hear and answere my prayer; but I did not understand God then as we learn to understand Him in Christian Science.

One evening I heard two people talking, and they mentioned the name of a Christian Scientist. This impressed me, and I did not rest until I found her and commenced taking treatment. Although my healing was not immediate, I was completely lifted out of spasmodic limping, caused from an injury to the knee when I was eleven years of age. Then I laid aside my glasses, which I had worn for eight years, and was healed from indigestion, appendicitis, inflammatory rheumatism, and from another shock of paralysis, when Christian Science literally snatched me from the grave.

I have learned that God is my Life, and my heart goes out in gratitude to the divine Principle and sender of all good, and to Mrs. Eddy who has shown us the way so nobly. I daily pray that I may become more worthy of him who said, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."—Mrs. J. T. Schulte, Minneapolis, Minn.

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