Testimony of Healing October 31, 1914 Issue

When a child, I suffered a very bad attack of a throat...

Walter F. Petzhold

When a child, I suffered a very bad attack of a throat disease, and for the next fifteen years its effects remained, although I tried almost every known means in materia medica, even submitting to several operations. I obtained but little relief from various physical ills, particularly a throat affection which manifested itself in a very troublesome speech defect. My eyesight and hearing were also affected. Finally, about five years ago, I suffered from nervous prostration. The physician stated that if I ever recovered, it would be years before I would be able to work, and then only at an outdoor occupation.

I was in a pitiful condition when a Christian Science practitioner was called to our home. I had been unable to sleep, except with the aid of most powerful opiates, for six weeks; yet shortly after the practitioner left, I fell into a natural sleep, and when the physician called again he remarked upon the seeming miracle. In a few days I was out of bed, and in a short time I was able to return to office work. While I have worked harder and have seemingly had more to contend with than ever before, I have had no recurrence of the trouble, and the change in my physical appearance is such that friends remark about it. Since this healing I have had numerous other demonstrations of the truth of Christian Science, in accidents, contagious diseases, and notably in the discarding of eye-glasses, after wearing them twelve years. For the past five years, even though I do considerable night work and study, my eyes have been better than ever.

While I am indeed grateful for the physical healing, which is becoming more and more outwardly manifested in me, yet my greatest cause for gratitude is that I have found a sane, practical religion, which enables me to prove every statement it makes. I am thankful for the better life it is making me strive to live, for the literature, the ideal church service, and other agencies, and for the friends who have always so willingly and readily striven with their understanding to help me gain the blessings which I now enjoy. I submit this testimony with the hope that my experience may be a help to others.—Walter F. Petzhold, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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