Testimony of Healing October 15, 1910 Issue

In offering this testimony for publication I hardly know...

Margaret Colley Turner

In offering this testimony for publication I hardly know where to begin, as there is no end to the good I have received through Christian Science. I have been led by ways that I knew not. Old thoughts have passed away, new and right thinking has made me a new creature.

Possibly few have had a more remarkable physical healing. Using our Leader's words, I had "committed liver complaint" (Science and Health, p. 431), and from the ill-boding results my offense in this line must have been grievous. From bilious attacks this disease had developed into what doctors call gall-stones, and if they know of anything else that can produce more violent suffering, I can only say I am only say I am thankful to have escaped it. In the winter of 1906, while suffering from this trouble, I came so near to death's door that practically all hope of my recovery was abandoned. An absent sister was wired for, and came to be with me, as my family all feared the end was near. After eight days of terrible suffering, the physician who had my case in charge called in three others; also one from another state (we having just moved to Nashville) under whose treatment I had been for four years. After due consideration, they decided that a surgical operation was my only hope.

Arrangements were made to this end, and in getting me ready for the ambulance the trained nurse mentioned that they were going to carry me to a certain sanitarium. I was unable to speak an audible word, but I felt a great dread of going there, and whispered to her the name of another hospital that I decidedly preferred. She made this request known to my husband and family and it was quickly granted, but the surgeon who was to perform the operation (possibly the most eminent in this state), declined to go to this hospital, saying he preferred to withdraw from the case if the patient were not sent to his own infirmary. (I was later told by our regular physician that this surgeon was rather glad to withdraw, as he considered the operation a most dangerous one, with practically no hope of its being successful, owing to my weak condition.) At this juncture another surgeon was called. When he entered my room, he had scarcely given me a second look before I heard him say, "There is a time for all things, but this is not the time for this operation." Upon his advice the operation was abandoned for the time being, and I believe that everything that conscientious and faithful physicians know how to do was done for my relief.

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