Testimony of Healing November 15, 1913 Issue

From invalidism, pronounced hopeless by physicians of...

Ethel L. Stocker

From invalidism, pronounced hopeless by physicians of two schools, and when doomed by them to drag out a miserable existence if I lived at all, Christian Science raised me to health and strength in a few days. In gratitude for my healing and that others may profit by it, I wish to tell the facts.

In September, 1909, after a severe illness, I underwent an operation for intestinal adhesions, said to have been the result of surgical operations at an earlier period. After this operation I suffered keenly for five months and was confined to my bed most of the time. All food distressed me, and at last opiates were prescribed to relieve the pain. I changed from one form of medical treatment to another, and though buoyed up by hope, so that I at first seemed to improve slightly, I soon sank back into a state of hopelessness.

Christian Science had been brought to my attention, but I hesitated to try it; at last, however, utterly discouraged, I decided to do so. A practitioner was called, who told me something of its teaching, and of Truth's healing power. The next day I ate hearty food without distress, the second day I was up and the house the third day I went up and down stairs without giving a thought to it, though for months before I had to be carried whenever I went from one floor to another, and the fourth day I walked more than a mile and experienced no ill effects. Six days from my first treatment my healing was complete. I did not know until after my healing that my relatives had been told by my physicians that I could never again be well; that if I lived, which was doubtful, I would be a hopeless invalid.

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