Testimony of Healing October 20, 1917 Issue

An awakening of my spiritual understanding to the wonderful...

Major C. J. Berry

An awakening of my spiritual understanding to the wonderful power and love of God came to me with a force that was irresistible. Prior to March, 1916, I was engaged in a business which kept me away from home during the week, except on Sundays, but my wife had procured a copy of Science and Health, and she asked me to take it along with me to read. I promised to do so, but as the only chapter which impressed me even a little was the one on Prayer, I gave up reading the book. Later I again tried to read it, but only to lay it aside.

About two weeks after that I had a severe attack of influenza, so went to a specialist on the nose and throat, who treated me about two weeks. As I was no better I did not know what to do. My wife then advised me to see a Christian Science practitioner, and at last I consented. When I went to his office I did nothing but ask questions, which he answered. I began to feel better, and in five treatments was cured. This experience so impressed me that I once more began to read Science and Health, and this time understood it much better.

Shortly after this my wife was suddenly stricken with apoplexy as she was coming downstairs. I heard her fall, and with assistance took her into our rooms. Some ladies in the house aided her, and one of them without my consent called a doctor, who made an examination but found no bones broken. He said the attack was due to nervousness, then wrote a prescription which the lady had filled; but I would not consent to my wife taking the medicine. She went to sleep, and the next morning got up as usual. I was already up and dressed, and a lady who had come in the night before to assist was in the room, when suddenly she called to me that my wife was going to fall, and I sprang up just in time to catch her.

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