Testimony of Healing September 25, 1909 Issue

How thankful I am to God for healing my diseases and...

Cora A. Arbuthnot

How thankful I am to God for healing my diseases and for this wonderful truth as revealed to us through our text–book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." I always loved to read the Bible, but did not understand it then as I do now; and it is much more beautiful to me. All the promises now seem so true and real, and they are all for us today. As we read in Jeremiah, "I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord." I hope that this testimony may give courage to some hopeless sufferer.

My case was considered hopeless, according to materia medica, for my physician (to whom I am grateful for his efforts to restore me to health) at last told me that the less medicine I took, the better. I realized then that God alone could cure me, but how this was to be accomplished I did not know. I believed that, as James says, "the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up;" but I did not have that faith. In February, 1906, I was taken sick with a severe gastric disorder, and a physician kept me on a strict diet for five months, but this and the drugs did not benefit me. We then took a trip overland to the Yosemite and were gone eight weeks. I seemed to be much benefited for a while, but in November I took cold and all the symptoms returned. I gradually grew worse, and the following February the doctor pronounced my case a serious affection of the stomach and both lungs.

About three weeks before I turned to Christian Science, the disease which had affected the lungs appeared in my throat, and I continued to fail until the latter part of April, when I gave up all hope, for my prayers had apparently not been answered. The doctor could do no more for me, but I could not be resigned to leaving my husband and three little ones. In my anguish I cried aloud to God, and He answered me, for in the morning my husband went to see a friend, and together they concluded that Christian Science was the only help for me. That afternoon this friend went with me to a practitioner, who gave me treatment, then told me to eat anything I wanted. I ate for supper the same as the family had, and it did not hurt me; nor has food ever hurt me since. Three days later, when my maid left me, I cleaned a room, and have done all my housework ever since.

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