Testimony of Healing April 16, 1910 Issue

After being in poor health for several years, I broke down...

H. A. Plueddeman

After being in poor health for several years, I broke down completely in February, 1905, and my case was pronounced lead-poisoning. A physician advised me to give up my trade as painter if I wanted to be cured of this disease. He also said that I would never dare to paint again, for if I did I surely would have a relapse and would then be incurable. After three months of medical treatment my health improved very slowly, and my physician gave me permission to go to work at paper-hanging, this being the only other work I could do that I was strong enough to undertake, and so I dragged myself to work, as my family and I had to live. I felt very miserable and discouraged, and often spoke of ending my life; but I had a loving wife and two dear children, and I could not bear the thought of parting from them in such a sinful way.

I had been working at paper-hanging for about three months, when one day a lady spoke to me about Christian Science, and said among other things that I could be healed from my afflictions through Christian Science treatment, and that I could keep right on painting while taking treatments and be cured of the disease and never be troubled with it again. Still, knowing what the physician had told me (and two other physicians had said the same thing), I was too skeptical to believe that Christian Science could do me any good, and I neglected to investigate the subject. About three months later I painted a small room in forty minutes, and that night I experienced the severest cramps I had ever had during all my illness. This set me to thinking about Christian Science again, and three weeks after this last attack I consulted a practitioner. She told me the same thing that the other lady had told me about Christian Science, and so a week later I commenced to take treatment. The following week I varnished a large room, and when I retired I wondered what effect this would have on me. Upon awaking the next morning I was surprised to see how fine I felt. After that I painted occasionally without being affected by it. The week following my third treatment I painted ten hours every day without feeling the least tired or affected thereby, and my health improved so rapidly that all my friends and neighbors wondered how it was that I was getting well "all of a sudden," as they called it, after being hardly able to carry myself about for eight months. The happiness which I experienced after I received my fifth treatment is almost indescribable. I was completely healed.

This was four years ago, and though I have painted steadily ever since, never for a moment have I felt any bad effect from it. My wife and children have also been healed from colds and some other ailments by reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mrs. Eddy, and have been without any medical aid whatever during the past four years. We all thank God for this truth, and hope that His blessings will be with the one who brought it to us.—H. A. Plueddeman, St. Clair, Mich.

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