Testimony of Healing October 1, 1910 Issue

About two years ago I had my first interview with a...

Oscar J. Goldschmidt

About two years ago I had my first interview with a Christian Science practitioner. At that time I was a wellnigh helpless cripple, not having taken a natural step for about two and a half years, as I was suffering from what is known as locomotor ataxia. For eight or nine years before this I had been treated by materia medica for rheumatism, which proved to be a wrong diagnosis; and when my actual state became known, I was informed that doctors could not do anything for me.

I had my first treatment in Science, June 28, 1908, and its benefits were at once apparent. I will give a brief outline of the progress I have made since then, as nearly as I can remember. On the first Sunday I went to church with cane and crutch and my wife as an aid, but I had a hard time of it; the second Sunday it was the same; on the third Sunday, I discarded the crutch; the next five Sundays I took my son with me; the next six months a younger son, ten years old. Up to October, 1908, the practitioner was obliged to call on me at my home, but after that time I went to his house, and since May 2, 1909, I have been going out by myself every day and anywhere. About August, 1908, I discarded the use of cane or crutch altogether in going about the house and premises, holding on to whatever was at hand. A month later I began to walk about without any artificial aid.

Up to this time I had not been able to go out after nightfall, but one evening I attended a lecture at night and took my wife along with me. A few weeks later I attended a lecture in the afternoon and was able to walk five blocks. About this time, too, the smoking habit, which was of twenty-three years' standing, left me. I had not been able to stand on my feet to wash myself, but now I can stand for hours at a time, performing all kinds of labor, including carpenter work, having put up all the wire fences and partitions in my poultry-yard; in fact, I can now do almost any kind of work.

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