Testimony of Healing January 1, 1921 Issue

Until my twentieth year I was perfectly healthy, but...

Laura Hinrichs

Until my twentieth year I was perfectly healthy, but business necessitated my going to Central America, where, it is supposed, the climate affected my health. I was ill for thirty years. I suffered from severe stomach trouble, nervousness, and perpetual colds, but mostly from the colds, and was constantly consulting the best physicians and visiting expensive health baths, with but slight and only temporary benefit. Owing to a weak heart I spent some time last year at a well-known resort, but with little result. Last December I was afflicted with an ulcer of the stomach, for which I consulted a nature cure physician, under whose treatment the condition slowly improved, leaving great weakness in its stead, however.

An acquaintance whom I called upon at this time turned my attention to Christian Science. Her husband, who had formerly been seriously ill, was now able to walk without crutches. I listened in amazement to what she told me, but upon arriving home laid away, unread, the books which had been given to me. It was not until four weeks later, when nearly desperate owing to inability to retain food in the morning, and fully intending to look up another well-known bathing resort, that I thought of going to a Christian Science practitioner whose name had been given to me. I received my first treatment. Frankly, what she told me did not please me, and somewhat disappointed at what I had heard I returned home, but followed the good advice of the practitioner to try to realize God's omnipresence and in my everyday life to follow Christ through self-denial, brotherly love, and purity of thought. I also read Der Herold and the other periodicals a great deal, and studied with the voracity of one who commences to realize that he is discovering valuable treasures. The brushwood of false beliefs was penetrated, and from that day on, such courage took possession of me that I took no more medicines. What seems most wonderful to me is that I can eat what I want, whereas before I was constantly dieting. I go to sleep soon after retiring and awake in the morning feeling refreshed, whereas formerly I lay awake for hours at a time and arose tired.

Nervous pains in the feet are gone, constant colds have ceased, and all my aches and ills have been replaced by health and joy. Whereas formerly I was scarcely able to ascend the stairs, I am now able to ascend with an elastic step. I feel as though I had been rejuvenated and sing with joy. I am commencing to see that the world is not a valley of tears but that it is lovely; that joy, not sorrow and trouble, is our right if we know how to think and live aright. When my friends and acquaintances marvel at the change, I tell them, "God has made me well."

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