Testimony of Healing March 22, 1913 Issue

Jesus said to one whom he healed, that he should go and...

Wilhelmina G. Wittigschlager

Jesus said to one whom he healed, that he should go and tell his friends the great things that God had done for him, and so I wish to tell others what God has done for me through Christian Science.

From the month of February, 1911, until July of the same year, I was a most miserable woman, sick and helpless, dragging myself from chair to chair, and with great difficulty could reach the hammock on the porch, where I would lie for hours, grateful if I were only left undisturbed. My right arm caused me inexpressible suffering, as though a myriad of fine electric wires were burning my flesh; the agony compelled an almost incessant change from one position of the arm to another until, worn out, I sought relief in tears. My husband is a physician, and when I appealed to him he pityingly advised me to have patience, as my suffering was due to my condition; then when I asked why I had not suffered similarly upon previous occasions, he replied, "Well, you are no longer young."

Two days after the departure of my husband for Europe a severe hemorrhage took place, and I sent for a woman physician in my immediate neighborhood; but alas, she could only advise an operation. I next consulted a professor conceded to be the greatest authority on the diseases of women in the city of New York; it took him only a few minutes to announce an abnormal growth and to urge a hasty operation. I pleaded with him to consider all the symptoms, but of no avail; he insisted that it was positively as he had said. I consulted two other experts, and they likewise advised an operation. Finally, in desperation, I went to a friend of my husband, the head surgeon of a prominent hospital. "Yes, a tumor," was his verdict; "a tumor, and not an ordinary tumor, but a most dangerous one, and one which requires the most difficult operation." He also advised that "an operation be performed at once." That day I made my will, resigned to my fate and ready to die.

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