Testimony of Healing February 19, 1910 Issue

Nothing but the hope that some one else may be benefited...

Nettie B. Scotchbrook with contributions from Margaret E. Brown

Nothing but the hope that some one else may be benefited by my experience, would induce me to recall the dark hours of sickness and discouragement which I endured before I was healed in Christian Science. For four years I was a sufferer from stomach trouble, nervousness, and other complications, resulting from an abnormal growth, for the removal of which an operation was being planned. Owing to the aggravated state of the stomach I would retire many nights without supper, and sometimes my husband would spend the greater part of the night applying remedies which the physicians had recommended. I had become such a slave to medicine that we thought it unsafe to be without certain kinds in the house.

I had been a member of an orthodox church for many years, and was trying to live a Christian life. I prayed that God would spare my life, that I might have the privilege of caring for my two children, then very young; but as material remedies were fast losing their power to relieve me, even temporarily, it seemed that I must soon leave my family. No one but a mother can realize what my feelings were at that time, but, thank God, I was spared, and the healing was accomplished in three treatments in Christian Science. That was nearly eleven years ago, and no medicine has been taken, nor any material remedies used since that time, and I can truthfully say that my health is perfect.

Upon returning home, after the healing, like many others I met with a disappointment. I had thought that my friends would rejoice with me in the good news, as I am sure they would have done had the healing been accomplished in materia medica. As they did not understand Christian Science, I was bitterly opposed by my dearest friends, but I have since seen prejudice removed and now some of those same friends are loyal Scientists.

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