Testimony of Healing July 25, 1914 Issue

I have felt for some time that I should tell of the benefits...

Jacob P. Hager

I have felt for some time that I should tell of the benefits I have received from Christian Science; but now that I have to do so I am at a loss where to begin, for I have received so much good that I cannot tell of all the blessings thatt have come to me in the short time I have been studying Science. I was extremely bitter against Christian Science, and said many things about it for which I am now very sorry; but I was ignorant of its teachings. Now that I have found the light, I hope to do something to help blot out all I have ever said against this saving truth as revealed in our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy.

When I was driven into Christian Science on the 12th of January, 1911, I was miserable in mind and body. I had worn arch supporters for about seven years, and for a number of months they had failed to help me walk, and my feet would swell and pain me so that I was almost distracted. I had worn glasses for twelve years, and they were causing me considerable trouble, for the heavy lenses which I was obliged to use gave me little relief, as I could hardly see for any length of time. I had headaches for over two years; sometimes they would last for a week at a time, and they were so severe that I could do very little work. For about a year before my advent into Science I had dizzy spells, and I had begun to think I was about to have softening of the brain, for I had a number of bad attacks which lasted a day or two, when I would reel about like a drunken man, and the feeling at that time was terrible. To cap the matter, I was worrying so that I could not sleep for more than an hour any night, and at the same time I had cold night-sweats. I rode by a large cemetery every day from the city, and many times in passing it I looked at the mounds and would say to myself that I wished it were all over with me and I were sleeping in that quiet place.

A friend was visiting here from Seattle, and he told me of the good he had received from reading Science and Health. I always laughed at him, but one evening, just before he returned to the West, he again told me that he knew Christian Science was the truth that Jesus had taught and that it would heal any disease known to mortals. A ray of light then came to me, and I began to think that maybe I had been wrong to condemn a thing before I knew anything about it. On reaching home that night I asked my wife if she had a copy of Science and Health, although I knew that she did not have one, for I had been so bitter against its teachings that I would not allow her to have any of the literature in the house. She said she had not, but could get one, and I asked her to do so. The next evening we started as soon as we had finished our supper and read until about eleven o'clock, and I afterward slept better than I had for years, but not all night. The next day we read more and later, and when I went to bed I slept soundly until morning. Now, when I awake in the night, I think of some of the beautiful sayings written by that noble woman, Mrs. Eddy, and in a short time I am again happily asleep. I have communion with God, good, who is, I know, the maker of everything that is good, and I am happy in the realization that I have found the "pearl of great price."

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