Testimony of Healing October 25, 1913 Issue

In January, 1909, while attending the state Legislature...

Lily V. Haynes with contributions from L. A. McDowell, E. H. Canfield

In January, 1909, while attending the state Legislature in St. Paul, a senator met a grief-stricken man whom he knew, on the street. He asked what the trouble was, and the man explained that he had brought his wife and small baby here and placed them in a sanitarium under the finest nerve specialist in the city, as his wife was mentally and physically unable to care for herself or the child. He had been told by the doctors that it would be from three to five months, at least, before she would recover, and unless she could stay there over a month he might as well take her away that day. It would cost seventy-five dollars a week, however, and as he could not afford that expense he was utterly disheartened.

Later they all removed to the hotel where the senator was stopping, and upon the advice of Christian Science friends they procured a Christian Science practitioner and nurse. In six hours after treatment was given, the wife talked naturally to her husband, saying quietly, "I believe we are going to be happier than we ever have been yet."

The mental and physical tension yielded, she yawned considerably, as if awakening from a disagreeable dream, and resumed the care of her baby. She awakened fully the fourth day and asked the Christian Science nurse what it was that had been helping her, saying, "When I was in the sanitarium I thought I never would get well enough to go home again, but the day after I left there I felt that my prayers to God were being answered, and every day I have been more sure, and now I know it; and I want to talk with the woman who has been treating me, and to know what Christian Science is." She did not wish to return home without a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy and a "Christian Science Hymnal," so her husband bought them for her. Sunday she attended her first Christian Science service and told the practitioner she had then been the nearest heaven that she ever had been in her life. Eight days from the time she began treatment she returned home, and a year afterward we were informed she was still taking care of her five children, and later that she was attending services and "real happy."

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