Testimony of Healing January 15, 1921 Issue

It is with deep reverence and gratitude to God and to the...

Peter Campbell

It is with deep reverence and gratitude to God and to the kind friends who brought Christian Science to me, and with the earnest hope that my experience will help some one else who may be suffering as I was, that I send this testimony of the healing power of Christ through Christian Science. I had been under the doctor's care for some time, and had been for over a year on pretty nearly a starvation diet. I suffered such intense pain that at times my husband and I both thought I would lose my reason. In January, 1917, I was to mortal sense at death's door. One doctor pronounced it liver trouble and another one gallstones, and said that I could not be cured without an operation. In fact, he said two operations were necessary and that I could not live in the condition I was in; so we decided it was the only thing to do. We wrote to my husband's brother and told him I was going into the hospital for an operation on the following Tuesday morning, and for him to wire if he was coming over or had anything to say. He was the only relative we had in this part of the country. About 8 p.m. on Monday I had a most wonderful experience. I called my husband and said: "Something is being done for me. I don't know how or what, but I believe I am going to get well again." He has since told me how frightened he was, thinking it to be the end. The pain immediately commenced to lessen and at 9 p.m. we had a wire from my brother-in-law telling us to postpone the operation, that he was sure I would be all right. Owing to the urgency of the need and the lack of time for communication he had taken my case immediately to a Christian Science practitioner. I went to bed that night and slept like a baby, a thing I had not done for years. Let me say here that up to this time I had not had any use for Christian Science. I got up the next morning and ate a hearty breakfast. Of course I thought the pain would come back again and said to my husband, "I don't believe in Christian Science but I will give up every prejudice I have and not fight against it, and see if there is anything in it." I also said: "I am going to eat whatever I want. If I can be cured of one thing I can be cured of everything."

I had been taking seven different kinds of medicine, all of which I put aside, and am grateful to say I have never had any need for any of them from that day to this, and have had no return of the old trouble. My husband, I think, took up Christian Science even more readily than I did, and we have been studying it ever since, and have had many demonstrations of its healing power during the past two years. Let me say again that words can never express our gratitude to God for the little we know of Christian Science, and we are both daily striving to live the life which reflects love to our fellow man, and hope to be the means of helping others sufferers to find the light, health, and harmony which we have received.—Mrs. Peter Campbell, Victoria, B. C., Canada.

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