Testimony of Healing August 27, 1910 Issue

I wish to acknowledge the many blessings that have come...

Jessie B. Taylor with contributions from C. A. Taylor

I wish to acknowledge the many blessings that have come to myself and family through the teachings of Christian Science. Our family consists of six, and for the last nine years Christian Science has been our only physician. It was first brought to our attention about twenty years ago, when my husband's aunt was healed of a malignant growth on the breast. This relative has enjoyed good health ever since, but even this demonstration of the efficacy of divine Love was not sufficient to convince us, and we remained skeptical for eleven or twelve years.

In February, 1899, my husband was healed by Christian Science treatment of a serious trouble for which he was using drugs under the direction of a physician; but, as his condition grew worse, we called in a Christian Science practitioner, under whose treatment he improved rapidly and was able to go about his business as usual within two days. He then began the study of Christian Science, reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" regularly, and by this method he was permanently healed, during the following summer, of a rupture with which he had been afflicted for twenty years. Besides this, severe cases of croup, measles, whooping-cough, and fever have been successfully treated by Christian Science in our family. But the real test of our faith came in February, 1907.

Upon going to the door one morning of that month, I was informed that our sixteen-year-old son had met with a most serious accident. He was delivering morning papers in company with another boy about his own age, who, while examining a 32-caliber revolver, accidentally discharged it into our son's face, the bullet entering just beneath the right eye. The boy was badly frightened when he realized what he had done, and dropping the revolver he fled, without telling any one of the accident. As this happened at an early hour, our son lay unconscious for about forty-five minutes, when he was found by a milkman. We were immediately notified and my husband hurried to the spot, only to find that the boy had been removed to a hospital. As soon as we learned of the accident we began to declare the truth about man and his relation to God, and I immediately summoned a Christian Science practitioner. When the news came to me, I might say, in the words of David, "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."

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