Testimony of Healing August 19, 1905 Issue

Over sixteen years ago I was healed of chronic invalidism,...

Sallie N. Chandler

Over sixteen years ago I was healed of chronic invalidism. which had baffled the skill of the best physicians known to me. One of them told me it was necessary for me to go to a surgeon in New York City and submit to a surgical operation. The thought of this operation filled me with so much dread, that it resulted in my going to see another physician, who informed me that there was no necessity for any surgical operation. I remember how I wondered at two prominent and trusted M. D.'s contradicting each other, in diagnosing my case. I continued trying for many weary months to get well. I tried several physicians, electric baths, magnetic healing, and even gave an old Chinese doctor's nauseating doses a trial. I was, indeed, like a drowning person grasping at a straw, when three different friends told me of Christian Science. Never having heard of it before, this seemed significant, and I resolved to go to see a Christian Science practitioner. There are no words to express what I would like to say of this wonderful healing, so different from all the other methods which I had tried. My first symptoms of recovery were manifested in an eager desire for spiritual things, and in praying as I had never known how to pray before. I actually enjoyed performing duties that had been irksome to me prior to the time I began to take Christian Science treatment. When the practitioner told me I would be entirely healed and that I need not fear to dispense with all the material remedies I had depended on so long, it seemed too good to be true, but I learned that man's extremity is God's opportunity.

I am now a living witness to the power of this healing, saving truth. I "know that all things work together for good to them that love God," and can say from my heart that I am thankful even for the dark hours and bitter experience, because they led me to seek the true healing and true living which cast out all fear.

Mrs. Sallie N. Chandler, Kansas City, Mo.

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