Testimony of Healing January 13, 1917 Issue

I am sincerely grateful for all the blessings that my wife...

George W. Carrington with contributions from Marjorie A. Carrington

I am sincerely grateful for all the blessings that my wife and I have received through the teachings of Christian Science, which brought light to us in an hour of darkest distress. I was suffering from what the doctor diagnosed as lung trouble of a quickly developing nature. He said that my only chance was to leave Detroit and go into a warm southern climate, though he did not hold out any great hope even then. Packed in ice and kept under the influence of opiates, with a high fever and constant hemorrhages, to mortal sense I lay between life and death. Christian Science was brought to my notice, but I refused to have anything to do with it, saying I could pray for myself better than any one could pray for me. Under the kindly care off a physician I recovered sufficiently to go back to work, but was very weak and could accomplish little. I applied for a position in the South, but before I could take it up, a second attack, worse than the first, prostrated me.

My wife again begged me to try Science, and being too ill to argue, and believing myself to be about to pass on, I allowed her to bring the lady who first told us of this teaching. As she sat by my bed the fever left me, the restless coughing was quieted, and in an hour I was sleeping peacefully. This was at nine o'clock in the morning; at noon I ate for lunch all that was brought to me and asked for more. In the previous attack, which lasted six weeks, I was able to take only iced milk and cream. I went to sleep again and did not wake until five o'clock in the afternoon, when I got up and dressed for supper, feeling strong and well. I was absolutely healed in that one treatment. There has never been the slightest return of any of the old symptoms, although the doctor had declared that the attacks would recur every few months or weeks.

We went South, thinking the climate might help me gain flesh and lose my delicate appearance; but at the end of four months I weighed and looked the same, although I had been able to work morre hours a day without the slightest fatigue than ever before. We studied the Lesson-Sermon each day, and gradually, as we learned more of this great truth, there came to us the realization that climate has no power over man created in God's image; and we proved it by going to Chicago in midwinter. The doctor had said that it would mean certain death if I stayed anywhere near the Great Lakes, but in a few weeks I began to look strong and to take on flesh. This happened five years ago and I have never had a sick day since. No words can express my thankfulness to God and my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her devoted self-sacrifice.

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