Testimony of Healing October 6, 1906 Issue

As it is a little over a year since my attention was directed...

Joseph Wl. Fitch

As it is a little over a year since my attention was directed to Christian Science, and having received so much help from articles and testimonies in our periodicals, I send this in the hope of aiding some one who is looking for better things. That Christian Science will cure, when both medicine and surgery have failed, I know to be true. After having tried medicine for a number of years, as a last resort I submitted, with the assurances of a radical cure, to an operation, only to find on returning to work that I was no better than before. I became very much discouraged, as I imagined I had exhausted all means of help.

About this time I received a visit from an uncle who had been healed through Christian Science some time before. He asked me if I would object to trying it. I said no, but that I did not have much faith, as what he told me it would do seemed too good to be true. In about a month after he left, I received a copy of Science and Health and a Bible. I had never expected to own a Bible. I had been unable to understand it or become interested in it.

The night I received the books, feeling unusually sorrowful and despondent, I opened Science and Health from curiosity, and read. Something seemed to comfort me, and I can truly say that never since has its reading failed to help. I went to bed and slept better than I had for a long time. I read the book regularly and soon was sleeping soundly every night. In about one month, after two days of unusual pain, which did not discourage me, my trouble disappeared, and I have been free from it ever since, and have been able to work harder and with less fatigue than ever before seemed possible to me. While I am indeed thankful for the physical benefits, they seem very slight compared to the joy, hope, and peace which become ours as we learn to apply the rules of our text-book in our daily lives; and how beautifully they illumine the Scriptures! Born in a religion which held before me the fear of eternal punishment, I early began to doubt and despair of finding any satisfaction in religion. It was indeed a cup of water in Christ's name, when our wonderful text-book was placed in my hands, for it has brought me a peace and happiness which I had not thought possible in this life.

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