Testimony of Healing February 19, 1916 Issue

I would like to tell how Christian Science helped me during...

Christian Cumming

I would like to tell how Christian Science helped me during an illness I had in January, 1913. I went to bed one Saturday night with pain in the top of my head and down the left side of my face. My sleep was broken, and I was unable to get up next morning; my face also was twisted to one side. I stayed in bed that day and sent to Edinburgh for Christian Science treatment. I had no fear and never thought of what the attack would be called. I just got up, as I felt I could, and worked away quietly. I think it was the following Friday that a doctor called. He was not sent for and did not know I had been ill, but just called in passing. He said I had facial paralysis, but that the worst was over. My ear was covered with little blisters, both inside and outside, and there was a strange noise in my head. Knowing that I was a student of Christian Science, he did not ask me to take any medicine, but offered to lend me a battery, saying it would be six weeks or two months before my face would be right, if even then. However, I wrote to him and said I would not need the battery, as my face was very much better. On Monday morning he called again, saying he could scarcely believe me and wanted to see for himself. He admitted that my face was much better, but thought I should use the battery, as the eye was still affected. He made still another call, and then asked me to do certain things, and I did them without any trouble. He said that he had never known a case of this kind to be healed in such a short time. I think it took in all about sixteen days for the trouble to disappear.

I felt so thankful for this demonstration,—thankful to God, and grateful to Mrs. Eddy for her wonderful teaching, which enables us to help ourselves and others.

Christian Cumming, Hamilton, Scotland.

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