Testimony of Healing January 3, 1914 ISSUE

I have received so much good, so much encouragement when...

Edith V. Otterson

I have received so much good, so much encouragement when I needed it, from the reading of the testimonies of others, that I feel I should be ungrateful if I did not tell of some of the benefits I have received. In the spring of 1907 I began to have bladder trouble and then other ills set in. We were then living on the desert and I had to send to a good doctor in Los Angeles. He sent me medicine, but I kept getting worse and in July I went to the city to be treated. The doctor said I must go to a hospital, and there, under the care of doctors and nurses, I remained nearly all the rest of the summer and fall. I was given temporary relief, but found that whenever I got out of bed I became worse. I grew no better but became weaker all the time, and finally the doctor, who had called in specialists, told me that the case had become chronic. As I could not get help there I decided to go to Arizona, where my husband's work had taken him, so that I might be with him when I died, instead of being among strangers. Kind neighbors helped me to dress and took me to the train, where I had the berth made up and went to bed.

When I arrived at the end of my journey my husband carried me into the house and put me in bed. I never expected to get up from it again, but a dear lady who had been cured in Christian Science heard of my being sick, called to see me, and told me how she was healed. I did not doubt that it had helped her, but I did not understand how it could help me, when the best doctors in Los Angeles had tried so hard to do so and could not. She went home, but in a few days returned again and persuaded me to let a practitioner come to see me. I finally decided to try Christian Science, but I kept my medicine, thinking I would have it to fall back upon if I grew worse under the treatment as I expected to do if I gave up the medicine. I soon found, however, that I was getting better, and the next day I felt as if I could sit up a while. I kept on feeling better every day, until all the minor ailments left me, but the bladder trouble was still in evidence, although I no longer suffered from it. After having treatment for about three months, I decided to study and try to work out the problem myself. My complete healing was slow, and I see now that this was for the best, as it caused me to study and find out something about this wonderful truth. About three and a half years after I first had treatment, I suddenly realized one day that the old trouble which had clung to me so long, was all gone.

I have had many blessings for which to be thankful, the healing of croup and other ailments with the children, right at home; and not one drop of medicine has been taken for over four years. I certainly feel thankful to God, also grateful to Mrs. Eddy that she has made it possible for us to know of the truth which sets us free.

Edith V. Otterson, Glenn, Cal.

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