Testimony of Healing April 21, 1917 Issue

Christian Science has done so much for us that I gladly...

J. W. Berg

Christian Science has done so much for us that I gladly give this testimony, with the hope that it may help some one who is struggling for the truth. I had spent the summer of 1915 in Oregon, and was returning to my home in Nevada with my daughter, a baby of eleven months, when she became ill. On reaching San Francisco we went to a rooming house, and I applied what few restoratives I knew how to administer, but to no good effect. The second day I called a doctor, and the third day telegraphed to my husband, who was in Nevada, to come to us.

We had three doctors in all, two of whom were specialists on babies' diseases. At first they gave us great hope of her recovery, but after about twelve days they told us they could do no more; that the child had tubercular spinal meningitis and could not live more than a day or two. They also said they had no record of a case of this type ever having been healed; that if the patients lived they were blind, deaf, or had some deformity.

We knew nothing of Christian Science, but several days before this a friend had called and left a copy of Science and Health, asking us to read certain parts of it. Very little of it was read, and that little was meaningless to us at the time; but when the doctors said they could do no more, we obtained the name and address of a practitioner from this friend, as we were ready to try anything that held out a hope of saving the baby. That evening we called on the practitioner, and she said she would come to our rooms the following day, after we had dismissed the doctor; so the next morning we told the doctor that since he could do no more for the child we had decided to try Christian Science.

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