Testimony of Healing February 25, 1911 Issue

Christian Science healed me when all material means...

Myrtle M. Pence

Christian Science healed me when all material means had failed, and it has given me the joy and brightness with which my life is now filled. In 1895 I passed through a severe operation for the removal of a very large abnormal growth. The nature of the operation was such that I did not regain my strength, and I suffered constantly from pain and weakness in the abdomen. I had to crawl up and down stairs, and could walk only a short distance. Five years after the operation I made a misstep and hurt the side on which the operation had been performed, and for two years I went about the house with a crutch, but could not so much as walk across the street.

I kept growing weaker, until, two years later, I collapsed entirely. I was not raised from my bed for eight months, during which time neither my friends nor the physicians had any hope of my recovery. At the end of the eight months I was beginning to sit up a little, when I became worse and for eight weeks could scarcely be moved in the bed. After many weeks I could sit up again, but could not walk; then another relapse brought me as low as at the first sickness. A specialist was sent for, who ordered a treatment that seemed to help me for a while, when I took a fever, which almost brought the end. I did not sit up over a half hour at a time for a year and could not walk at all. At the end of this time I had been in bed most of the time for three years.

During all my sickness everything that could be done for me was done. The best physicians in the state of Indiana attended me, and every method of treatment suggested was tried. During the last year my family took me in the summer to a lake in northern Indiana, hoping the change might benefit me. I was helpless and utterly hopeless, and I am sure none of my friends ever expected to see me walk again. At first the change seemed to help me, but at the end of three weeks I became so much worse that it looked as if this was the end. A party of young people from Ohio came to the hotel where we were stopping, and we were told that they were Christian Scientists. When they first suggested that I try Christian Science, I was very antagonistic to it, but when I became so much worse I knew there was nothing else for me, and I decided to try it as a last resort.

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