Testimony of Healing January 2, 1909 Issue

I have kept silence much longer than I should have done,...

Charles O. Hanson

I have kept silence much longer than I should have done, and have failed to tell to the world the glad news of my being lifted out of the "valley of the shadow of death" through this glorious truth which saves and heals. It is a little over four years since I was persuaded by dear friends to try Christian Science for what the medical profession had pronounced hereditary lung trouble. I was seemingly in the last stages, and for seven years had been drifting from one climate to another in search of health. Christian Science had been recommended to me by friends in Chicago, some time previous to my acceptance of it, but like a great many of my acquaintances I was ignorant of its real teachings and supposed that those who believed in such a doctrine were fanatics.

In April, 1904, however, my roommate, though not a Christian Scientist, knowing my state, and feeling that I could not last long under existing conditions, said to me one morning, "Why not try Christian Science? You have given climate, physicians, etc., every show, and I have known of cases where it has proved beneficial." I replied that I had little or no faith in it; but like a drowning man grasping at a straw, I then decided to give it a trial. I went to a practitioner, who explained to me that Christian Science is of God, and that God is no respecter of persons: therefore it was for me. Words cannot describe the great feeling of hope which arose within me. I could hardly wait for the first treatment. I had been coughing for seven years, was afflicted with chronic bowel trouble and headaches, besides having a very bad form of stomach trouble caused from excessive use of whisky, which had been prescribed for me by different physicians. Three of my brothers and two of my sisters had passed on with lung trouble, and as I had had several alarming attacks, I was indeed a physical wreck, and expected death with every change of the weather

Thanks be to God, after two weeks' treatment in Christian Science I began to improve, and to-day I am enjoying good health. The way has not always been smooth, I have had many seemingly difficult problems to work out, but I have never doubted that God could and would lift me out of them if only I would trust Him fully; and I have never been disappointed. In the past four years I have lost but two or three days' work on account of sickness, and this alone is wonderful, because in former years, before obtaining a knowledge of Christian Science, I scarcely ever passed through a month without losing some time on account of illness. I also had a very bad temper, and was much given to profanity, but my friends who knew me before I came into Science have since been known to remark, "I don't know what Christian Science is, but I do know that it has worked wonders for Hanson."

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