Testimony of Healing January 12, 1918 Issue

In 1888, while Mrs. Eddy was in Chicago, one of her students...

Ida Foedish

In 1888, while Mrs. Eddy was in Chicago, one of her students asked me to hear her lecture, saying I would be healed of so-called fatal lung disease from which I was suffering; but I did not go. The result was that I spent twelve years in bondage to this trouble, and the mental and physical conditions caused much suffering.

Then in January, 1900, I fell downstairs, sustaining internal injuries as well as injuring my spine. During the year which followed I was under the constant care of physicians. Operations were advised, but I would not consent to them, for on account of a weak heart and a frail body I felt I would not live through them. Several times a day I fainted from pain and every morning an attendant had to work over me, as my body would become numb during the night. I shook as though I had the palsy and to make matters worse my memory began to fail.

One day a friend, a Christian Science practitioner, came to see me and said there was only one thing which would help me. I replied that I knew it, but I meant suicide and she meant Christian Science. When ready to leave she told me where she could be found in case I wanted her during the next half hour. A few moments after she left I was about to faint, and a young lady who was with me asked me to see this friend. Then it was as though a voice said to me, "You can try Christian Science, and if it does not help, you can try the other; but if you try the other, you cannot try Christian Science." Strength was given me to make my decision. I had lost my voice, so the young lady told the practitioner that I wanted treatment.

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