Testimony of Healing December 9, 1916 Issue

For a considerable period in my youthful days I vaguely...

Louis B. Foley with contributions from C. C. Chandler

For a considerable period in my youthful days I vaguely entertained the idea that I had been specially created to do as I pleased, in other words that I might do wrong how and when I would, and that somehow I should have little or no penalty to pay; but there was also at times the feeling that some day, a long, long way in the future, I must reform. By pursuing such a course I was naturally led into much suffering and needless anguish. When my mother first told me of Christian Science, in my childish, ignorant egotism I scorned it, but tried to read Science and Health as a disagreeable duty. I dabbled at the study of this teaching for a good many years, but was not willing to let go of some heavy forms of dissipation.

In 1906 I was stricken with some sort of abdominal trouble. One doctor said it was appendicitis; another said that the appendix ought to be removed anyway. Frequently the pain was so great that an opiate was used to give temporary relief. A Christian Science practitioner was called upon for help, and though I was supposed to be passing on (indeed it was reported that I had already done so), after some days of faithful work by the practitioner I began to mend, and although the convalescence was slow, it was sure, so that in a few weeks I was quite myself.

In 1911, while in a western state, I was attacked by a fever and other alarming symptoms. Upon my arrival at my sister's home near Chicago, I was in an extremely serious condition. Again a Christian Science practitioner was called upon. He saw me just once during my stay at my sister's home, and not again until I was able to go to his office, so that the healing in this case was accomplished almost entirely by absent treatment.

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