Testimony of Healing October 2, 1920 Issue

Fourteen years ago I was almost a physical wreck

Minnie M. Gates

Fourteen years ago I was almost a physical wreck. I tried several doctors and many different kinds of medicine, which did no good. I had internal trouble, including kidney and bladder disease. I prayed very earnestly to be healed and also had others pray for me, but it seemed to do little good. An operation was advised, which I went through, and suffered very greatly under it and under the treatments while in the hospital where I stayed seven weeks, and then was sent home, but no better. The last physician I visited told my husband I was just as well off without the medicine as I was with it; that I could not be cured. Then I turned to Christian Science and I was healed in a very few treatments. I found a God in Christian Science who heals all our diseases, and I found the peace that this world cannot give. I could go to bed and sleep like a child, where before I had been so nervous I would lie awake most all night long suffering with pain.

I am the mother of six children and they have all been healed of diseases that are common to children. Pneumonia, fever, measles, mumps, croup,—all have been overcome with Christian Science treatment. I had a daughter healed of influenza during the epidemic of a year ago last winter. I called in a doctor, as not all were willing to rely on Christian Science treatment. He treated her for some time and she did not improve but grew worse. She had an abscess on the lungs and it broke, and the doctor told her husband he did not have much hope for her recovery, as he was afraid she would have tuberculosis. We dismissed the doctor and had Christian Science treatment, and she was healed. Her cough is all gone and she is as well as ever. I am grateful for the physical healings in Christian Science, but the spiritual healing means much more to me.

(Mrs.) Minnie M. Gates, Ralston, Okla.

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