Testimony of Healing January 29, 1921 Issue

About fifteen years ago we had our first healing through...

Maude F. Wickman

About fifteen years ago we had our first healing through Christian Science, when my little son was instantaneously healed of a fractured and dislocated shoulder. Since that time Christian Science has been our only physician. One of my sons was healed of a discharge from his ear, following measles, which material remedies had failed to relieve. I was healed of tonsillitis which had recurred each year for many years, of diphtheria in a very severe form, and of blinding headaches which had become so frequent that I sometimes had three in a week.

About five years ago a claim presented itself which was not so readily overcome, and I now realize that I had called upon a practitioner very much as I had called upon our family physician, without realizing for myself what this wondrous truth is that had met our every need. After having been treated for a year and a half by a Christian Science practitioner, diagnosis by a physician was deemed advisable. He pronounced it a well-developed case of fistula. Christian Science treatment was resumed, and for nearly five years I was under constant treatment. Finally when it seemed that I could bear the pain no longer the physician who had diagnosed the case was called, but before he arrived the healing came, although it was not apparent at first, and he said nothing but an operation could cure me, as a horseshoe abscess had formed. The practitioner reminded me that the truth was operating in my behalf and that I did not have to outline when or how the operation of the truth would be manifested. I improved steadily from that time, though many times the old suggestions would try to tempt me into believing that it might come back. Recently I again went to the same physician for examination, that others might be as sure of the healing as I was. He pronounced me completely healed, and said that he was very glad to do so.

I cannot express my gratitude for all of these blessings, and more than all I am grateful for the joy of studying and demonstrating the truth, which God has revealed to this age through our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. The periodicals are a constant inspiration to me and are my daily food, after the Lesson-Sermon.

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