Testimony of Healing October 26, 1907 Issue

At the age of sixteen, and during several years previous,...

Alice Parsons Millard with contributions from Lillian Downing

At the age of sixteen, and during several years previous, I suffered from severe and constant headaches. Being unable to relieve these headaches, the attending physician referred my case to an oculist. Examinations were made, the complaint being diagnosed as a structural difficulty, for which special glasses were prescribed. These glasses were worn for seven years for reading or anything that required close application. The oculist described the case as a malformation, an imperfection that properly adjusted glasses would correct, but which would increase with years,—and that nothing could cure. At this time, in 1895, after years of ill health, I turned to Christian Science for organic troubles which materia medica had failed to heal, but did not ask for treatment for my eyes, as it never occurred to me that Christian Science could possibly obviate the necessity of glasses. A very few treatments healed me completely of the other troubles, and then, to my surprise, I found myself reading and studying without my glasses and without the slightest discomfort. That was ten years ago, and I have never worn glasses since. I have not suffered at all from pain in the eyes or from headaches. Six of those ten years were spent in continuing my own studies, at the same time, so that my eyes were used constantly during the day and usually until late at night. I read habitually. in trains and street cars, and in crossing the ocean, and my eyes have never failed me.

Alice Parsons Millard, Chicago, III.

I have enjoyed the blessings of Christian Science for three years and feel it my duty to send my testimony to the Field. I had been in poor health for six years, and most of that time was a great sufferer, having lung trouble, severe headaches, and other serious troubles. I had doctored with the best physicians and had been sent to the coast in the hope it would cure my lung trouble, but nothing seemed to give me much relief, and I grew weaker all the time. Physicians told me I would have to undergo two operations, and after many consultations I decided to submit to them, this being held out to me as the only hope of saving my life. All arrangements had been made, and I took my little daughter to Topeka, Kan., to leave her with my parents while I was in the hospital in Kansas City. While there a friend talked to me of Christian Science. At that time I knew little or nothing of it, but was willing to try anything to save me from the operating table. I was taken to see a practitioner, and after a few minutes' conversation I decided to give Christian Science a trial. I telephoned to my husband to see the surgeon and to say that I would not go to the hospital the following week. I began the treatment at once, and at the end of the first week I was much better. I continued to improve, and at the end of six weeks I was free from disease and discord. During the past three years I have enjoyed the best of health. I had worn glasses for four years, but since coming to Christian Science I have been able to lay them off. The physician had told me the expense for operations and hospital would be very great, but in Christian Science I had only six weeks' treatment, and purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the whole costing a relatively small sum of money. I feel very grateful to God and to Mrs. Eddy. Christian Science has been a blessing in our home.

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