Testimony of Healing January 15, 1921 Issue

It is with gratitude to God that I testify to what Christian Science...

Sarah E. Pickford

It is with gratitude to God that I testify to what Christian Science has done for me. In 1911 I was thrown out of a buggy and the neck of the femur of the right hip was pushed up into the socket and broken off. The doctors said they had set it; then I lay for six weeks with a seven-pound weight tied to my foot, and could not sleep day or night. I was later taken to a sanitarium and placed under the care of another doctor, who said I would have to have an operation, and that he could cut that bone out, but I would have to go on crutches. I refused to consent to it. After being there a little more than three weeks I went to a health resort, where I remained for two weeks, but did not get any better. I went about on crutches and when I would fall down I could not get up without help. I then took osteopathic treatments, but without avail. For two years and a half I could not sleep except for ten or fifteen minutes at a time, and I could not turn myself in bed.

At this time a friend asked me why I did not try Christian Science. I consented and a practitioner gave me six treatments, after which I felt that I could help myself, and I did. I have been healed of rheumatism, stomach trouble, sick headache, insomnia, nervous prostration, and also of consumption, although the doctor said that one lung was gone and the other was half gone. I thank God I am a well woman to-day, although because of the shortened limb I cannot as yet dress one of my feet. My husband has been healed of the desire for smoking and of constipation, and some kind of falling spells which the doctor never could name. I am so thankful to God and to Mrs. Eddy for the blessings I have received through the study of Christian Science. I am so thankful also that I can help others. We are grateful for membership in The Mother Church and for all of the Christian Science literature.

(Mrs.) Sarah E. Pickford, Selma, California.

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