Testimony of Healing October 2, 1920 Issue

As I have always found the testimonies in the Journal...

R. E. Blanch with contributions from Mabel Blanch

As I have always found the testimonies in the Journal and Sentinel most helpful, I feel it is time I added mine. For fourteen years before I took up the study of Christian Science I had been a semi-invalid suffering from an internal trouble. For this I had an operation, which proved for a time successful, and we thought my troubles were at an end.

I had been home only a short time before I was suddenly seized with bad turns which proved to be epileptic fits. I suffered from these for about three or four years, during which time I had two doctors and two specialists who were all most kind to me and did their best. The last specialist tried every drug but one, and that he did not care to give. We were in despair, and it was then that Christian Science came to me through a friend who was a Christian Scientist. I had never heard of Christian Science and had no idea what it was. She explained a little to me, and although I did not understand it I decided to try it for the sake of my husband and children. I at once gave up all medicine and dieting, and ate just what the others did, a thing I had not done for a very long time. Science and Health was lent to me but I could not read it owing to the supposedly weak condition of the brain. A few days afterwards I asked for treatment and was instantaneously healed although I had no knowledge of what Christian Science was.

I shall never forget the wonderful uplift I experienced with that treatment, and I left the practitioner's office a very different woman from the one I was when I entered it, and for three months I was absolutely on the mountain top. I have had no return of the trouble, and that was twelve years ago. I had a return of the internal trouble for which I had had an operation, but it was quickly overcome in a few days by my own realization of the truth. Since then I have been gradually working out my own salvation. Bronchitis, a growth, indigestion, and muscular rheumatism (all supposed to have been inherited complaints) have been overcome. For some of these I have had help. Smaller ailments such as a weak lung, nettle rash of years' standing, influenza, colds, bilious attacks, corns, chilblains, chapped lips and hands have all been overcome through the knowledge of the truth. No material remedy of any kind have I used during the twelve years. My remedy has always been the truth and it had never failed.

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