Testimony of Healing May 13, 1911 Issue

Christian Science has been to me "good tidings of good,"...

L. Will Welker

Christian Science has been to me "good tidings of good," and it has made me absolutely well. From early years I was never strong, and under the weight of close study, both in high school and in college, I suffered from repeated illnesses, so that for eight or ten years I was almost continually under the care of physicians, being now sick and again well. About five years ago, after another year of semiinvalidism, I underwent an operation; but instead of improved health I daily grew weaker, and the doctor told my people that there seemed little hope for me. At that time I was largely confined to my chair, through lack of strength. Meeting a lady who had been wonderfully healed through Christian Science, she spoke to me of it and loaned me a copy of Science and Health, telling me to read the "scientific statement of being" (p. 468). I read as she directed, and must have received instantaneous healing, for I found myself well and strong almost immediately; but not then understanding the Principle that heals, in fact not really knowing that God, Truth, had healed me, I gave up reading Science and health after a few months, returning to the orthodox belief of former years, though I had never known such excellent health as during those few months.

The result which soon followed was a return, worse than before, to my former sicknesses. In the midst of heavy teaching classes, I suffered from a complete collapse. Severe weakness in heart conditions came on, so that in a few weeks I was worse than formerly. Getting little relief, I went to a lower altitude, but returned no better. My stomach had troubled me for years, and now I was on a strict diet that availed little. It was almost a year that I had again been continually sick, when I was attacked with a severe case of rheumatism. When I had come out of this so that I could sit up a little, I began to see the nothingness of matter as my help. During the long hours of intense suffering I rebelled against the God I had tried to serve so faithfully for so many years, and I began to know that I must seek a new faith or a new understanding. I realize now that I needed both the new-old faith and the new understanding.

During all this time I had never once thought of Christian Science, strange as this may seem, but I saw that I must seek help there alone, for the doctors had given me up the second time. I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and the reading of this wonderful book healed me. When I started to read it, in May, 1908, I was scarcely able to sit up and could not walk without help. I had tried the physicians, and I now gave Christian Science a fair and absolute trial. Death was my sentence, so I cast all on Science as my last chance. I dismissed the doctor, threw away all medicine, and read each day for six and eight hours. The power of Truth was shortly seen in its effects on my body. I gave up dieting, and was soon eating whatever I wanted, and have since done so, nor have I suffered at any time from it. Strength returned rapidly, so that I was up and out, walking as I liked. My heart soon lost all erratic action, as I came into the understanding of the action of divine Mind, which is all harmony. I had come to Colorado on account of illness, but this too faded away in the atmosphere of Love wherein the true man lives and breathes.

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