Testimony of Healing April 25, 1914 Issue

For a long time I have felt that it was my duty to give...

G. Klopfenstein with contributions from G. Klopfenstein

For a long time I have felt that it was my duty to give my testimony to what Christian Science has done for us. It was in 1898 that I had the first attack of epilepsy, and for a while I had one about once a month. I tried the best specialists in the country, also electrical treatment, but with only temporary relief, for the trouble continued to return more frequently and in an aggravated form. Before coming into Christian Science I had as many as three attacks in one day. Finally, I was told by one of the best doctors in this part of the state that there was no hope whatever for me.

Some time after this announcement a friend who had been healed through Christian Science asked me to try it, and as I had tried everything else, I said I would. She gave us a copy of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," saying that I would surely be healed by reading and studying it. I was not, however, quite ready for the truth and would not read the book, but my wife started to do so, and in about a week she was healed of a chronic bowel trouble of over six years' standing. Her healing opened my eyes somewhat, and I began to read also. I then called on a practitioner. The result was, that the attacks grew less severe and came less frequently, until they finally disappeared, and it is now over three years since I had the last one. I was also healed of rheumatism, with which I was greatly troubled every winter.

I am grateful for the physical healing, but it is little compared with the spiritual benefit which is gained through the study of the text-book. Words cannot express my thankfulness to God for what Christian Science has done for us.—G. Klopfenstein, La Grande, Ore.

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