Testimony of Healing April 23, 1910 Issue

I did not come into Christian Science for the healing

L. B. Edward

I did not come into Christian Science for the healing. I had for many years been a member of an orthodox church and had little patience with what I considered Christian Science to be. I overcome my scruples to some extent, however, and married into a Christian Science family, but I maintained my connection with my own church, even taking a more active part than formerly. After a time, however, I began to realize that my wife received more comfort and help from her religion than I did from mine. I could not understand why, so I decided to investigate a little. When I got my own consent to do this it was only a short time until I was fully convinced that instead of a transcendental, abstract theory, my wife had a very practical, helpful, every-day religion, while I had only a theory. Soon after I withdrew from my own church and became a member of the Christian Science church. I have now been identified with this movement about ten years, and in that time I have had many proofs to strengthen and sustain me. I have received many blessings, and been helped in many ways through my own understanding and that of others. I discarded glasses which I had used for five years, and I was entirely relieved of throat trouble from which I had suffered more or less for years. I used to have an attack of chills and fever once or twice a year; but these attacks were made unreal to me in Christian Science, and I have had no return of them for several years.

In the spring of 1907 I met with a very severe and painful accident while overseeing some work at a planingmill in Memphis, Tenn., with which I was connected. A piece of belting pulled apart, and one end, which had several copper brads in it, struck me, inflicting a most painful and dangerous wound. When the foreman asked whom he should call, I asked him to telephone to a Christian Science practitioner, instructing him to tell her exactly what had occurred. He reported that she was out, and on telephoning my wife, found that she also was out. I then told him to call a surgeon, an old roommate of mine. I was carried home in an ambulance, and they were all there when I arrived. The surgeon sewed up and dressed the wounded, while the practitioner in the next room was giving me treatment. Many stitches were required, the work covering about two hours. I took no anesthetic, but during the entire operation talked freely with the surgeon. It was indeed very painful at times, but nothing like as severe as I thought it would be, thanks to the Christian Science treatment given me at the time. The Scientist remained in the house with me for three days and nights, with the result that instead of fever, as the surgeon feared, I had no fever whatever, and in about two weeks I was out. The surgeon told me afterward that he was very fearful at first, as the percentage of mortality in similar wounds is considerable. He was most careful and painstaking in his work, but I know, and I think he realized, that it was Christian Science which sustained me and kept out the fever, and restored me well and strong in so short a time.

I cannot be too grateful for this helpful, healing truth, and for the understanding through which I was enabled to overcome much pain and was so quickly healed.

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