Testimony of Healing May 21, 1910 Issue

I have been healed of lung and spinal trouble, also of...

Henry W. Ruge

I have been healed of lung and spinal trouble, also of the liquor and tobacco habits, through Christian Science. I had the lung affection from childhood up, and the doctors said it was incurable. We had a fine business in Davenport, Ia., but first my father died of this disease, then my mother, next my sister, and the result was that our business failed. I started to travel, though I did not expect to find health anywhere. I was in a hospital in Chicago three times. Sometimes I was able to work, but very seldom, I went up through Canada, then to New York, and from there to England and to Italy, and often was in the hospitals. Then I went to Africa, and from there to Italy, and back to the United States.

I worked for the U. S. Express Co. in Chicago for three years, and their doctor stated that it was useless for me to take medicine, that it would not do me any good, and that I must go to Colorado if I wanted to live any length of time, or in fact to live at all. I went Denver and remained there a short time in a hospital, and was kept by the U. S. Expressmen's Relief Association of Chicago. Leaving there, I traveled through Colorado, spending some time in the hospital at Colorado Springs, and then went on to California, where I remained in the county hospital for some time. I was getting so that I could not walk; for besides the lung trouble, I had contracted spinal disease, and could barely move. After being kept by the county there, I wanted to get back to Denver, where I had friends who would give me money to go into the hospital there again, but the doctor said, "You can't possibly get to Denver, and you would only have to be brought back by the county." I, however, left, and walked from San Bernardino to Victor (forty-four miles) and it took me one hour to walk each mile of the forty-four. While there some cowboys took up a subscription and got me a ticket back to Denver. On arriving at the hospital there I had to be put in a plaster cast, but though several kinds were tried none of them helped me to walk. I was in the hospital off and on for five years, and at last the doctor said I would have to go to the poor-farm and from there to my final resting-place. I was on crutches more or less of the time for three years, and when I got back into the hospital they put me into a cast again, with a weight on each leg, and I was in that condition when I found Christian Science.

A copy of Science and Health was passed around from patient to patient, at the hospital, and after reading this book one afternoon, I realized that I had found the truth. I was healed, and was out of the hospital in one week's time; in another week I cut off the plaster cast, and was quite able to make a trip to Omaha, and to Carroll, Ia. After I was healed through the reading of Science and Health, I came to Portland, Ore., and have been here now nearly three years, during which time I have never had a physician, nor have I had any spinal or lung trouble, and I have been happy and well, and at work. I had never thought I could be well, for my expectation had always been an end at the poor-farm with a pauper's grave. I was not looking for any healing, and never knew that it could be had.

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