Testimony of Healing November 25, 1916 Issue

In August, 1909, my family physician, after two years of...

Elizabeth F. Coleman

In August, 1909, my family physician, after two years of constant attention, told me I was in a very critical state, owing to a complication of diseases and ten different ailments for which he could not give me medicine on account of the condition of my stomach and heart. For nine months I had been on a rigid diet. My friends thought it time to get other advice, so I went to a specialist connected with one of our best hospitals. He corroborated all the family physician had said, and told me I had a disease which he could only hope to alleviate, as there was no cure for it. When asked the cause of such a disease, he said neither the cause nor the cure had ever been found by the medical faculty. The next specialist consulted said he could not give me any encouragement, and told the one who had sent me to him that I could not possibly live until the holidays. To make a long story short, I was given up as incurable by five able physicians of this city and plainly told there was no chance of recovery.

All my life I had had more or less trouble with my heart, fainting often, regardless of place or circumstance, and for about twenty years had suffered from intestinal disorder. For more than two years I had not slept four hours out of the twenty-four, and then for such short periods that it was hard to tell if I slept at all. My suffering was so intense that at night I prayed for morning and at morning for night. Nothing could be given me to produce sleep, owing to the heart trouble.

I had promised a friend who had been healed in Christian Science that if the fifth specialist gave me up I would let her introduce me to a practitioner, so in April, 1910, she did so. I expected nothing from Christian Science, but I wish it were possible to describe the love and patience with which the practitioner treated me. I was a nervous and physical wreck, without hope or faith in anything, and had fully determined to end it all after that visit to her ; but after the first treatment I slept so well that we could hardly believe it. When the heart trouble went I do not know, but it just seemed to vanish, and the intestinal trouble went with it, as well as chronic bronchitis. Since coming into Science I have fainted only once, and that was through an accident. The disease which was said to be incurable was very stubborn, but finally yielded on New Year's day, 1915.

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