Testimony of Healing July 13, 1918 Issue

I gladly give this testimony of what Christian Science...

Peter E. Rude

I gladly give this testimony of what Christian Science has done for me and for my family. I tried one physician after another to get relief from what I thought was a canker in the cheek, and none seemed to know or would tell me what the trouble was. At last my husband persuaded me to see a doctor who was an old friend, and this physician told me it was a malignant growth, but said that I would be all right after an operation. In accordance with his advice I went to a specialist and was operated on, a large piece of flesh and the glands in my throat being removed; but in fourteen months I had to undergo another operation. In less than a year five different remedies were used and I came near passing on, so severe were the treatments. I had to call in a doctor from our home town for help.

Then a friend told one of my daughters that he wished I would try Christian Science. He sent me copies of the Journal and Sentinel, and said he knew I could be healed. I went to Duluth, Minnesota, for treatment, but apparently got no relief. Then I tried another practitioner. The trouble moved to the lip. My husband was getting desperate, and hearing of a specialist in Chicago advised me to consult him. As my children were heartbroken from fear that the disease might prove fatal, I did so; but in less than a year my condition seemed worse than ever. Through it all I clung to Science and Health, and took it with me wherever I went; it was my guide. I read it for over two years before I knew there was a Christian Scientist in Ashland. Then I met one, and she asked me why I did not attend the Christian Science meetings. I told my husband that if he would read the literature and go to church, I felt sure I would be healed, so he went just to please me; but it did not take him long to see the truth. Now we are both members of the society here and of The Mother Church.

I can truthfully say that I am free from the malignant growth and my face hardly shows that I ever was operated on. Heart trouble, too, has been overcome, although it was so severe at times that my family thought every attack would be the last. Rheumatism and headaches have also yielded to the truth. For over six months I have not missed having a five o'clock breakfast ready for my family. I do all the housework and never was in better health, but most of all is the spiritual uplift. I have lost all fear of accidents for my husband and sons, whose work at times is very dangerous. My husband was cured of gallstones, profanity, and smoking. He fell on a hayfork, running a tine into his hip, and it pointed toward the heart. Two doctors were called, and they would not move him to a hospital, for they said he would die on the road. After that a Christian Science practitioner treated him, with the result that in two weeks he walked about five miles and rode fourteen miles on street cars. In three weeks he helped to build a big barn for the hay. Previous to this experience he had not lost one day through sickness for three years. I can truthfully say that he had nothing but Christian Science treatment after the first treatment by the physicians.

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