Testimony of Healing November 9, 1912 Issue

While living in Chicago, near Christmas, 1906, a skin...

Peter Thinnes with contributions from Kate Thinnes

While living in Chicago, near Christmas, 1906, a skin disease broke out on my feet. I used some local applications for a few days, but as a change for the worse quickly set in, I went to see a doctor, who examined me and said it was a case of metallic poisoning in its worst form. He asked what business I worked at, and I told him I had been in the brass business for over twenty-four years. His comment was that no one could stand it as long as I had done. Instead of getting better I grew worse; my hands became as bad as my feet, and the suffering was so great that I often had to cry, like a child.

In February, 1907, a friend of my wife came to our house one evening and asked me why, if doctors could do nothing for me, I did not try Christian Science. I did not even answer that good woman, as my wife had been healed in Christian Science of an illness of over seven years' standing, and even then I was against it, as I could not believe any one had the power to heal the sick as Christ Jesus did I therefore kept on in the old way, suffering and trying different doctors, until July, 1907, when I discarded all drugs and asked the friend who had offered me Christian Science to get some one to help me, and she did. To tell the truth, often in my suffering and pain I had recalled her words; so I did try Christian Science, and with six treatments I was healed not only of the poisoning, but of other ills. I had used glasses, as my eyes had given out, and I also had a rectal trouble for five years. I could not hear with my right ear, and every spring and fall I had a cold. My sense of fear is, however, gone, and I have not had anything in that line for the last four years.

One year after I was healed in Christian Science the tobacco habit left me, and never since have I had a desire for tobacco. My eyes were healed from the time the practitioner had explained to me what God and man are as understood in Christian Science. We had "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in the house for years, but I never wanted to know what was in it, until God opened my eyes. I then started to read it to find out what it was that had healed me, and today I know it was God. Since then, through the understanding I got in studying Christian Science, I have been able to help myself and others, and in trying to follow this teaching I have learned that God is our protector, as this is proved to me daily. I have been in two street-car accidents where many people were injured, but I was saved except that I had two fingers badly hurt. A doctor was going to amputate one finger the next day, but I refused his services and got a Christian Science practitioner to help me. The pain stopped, I never lost a minute's sleep, and one week later my fingers were healed.

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