Testimony of Healing January 28, 1922 Issue

With thankfulness to God and gratitude to Mrs. Eddy...

W. E. Jenkins

With thankfulness to God and gratitude to Mrs. Eddy I feel it my duty to tell how much I have been helped through the truth. Many years ago I heard of Christian Science, but I was not willing to make a daily study of it, for at that time I rather condemned its teachings, although I wanted help. About four years ago I found myself in about one of the worst positions I had ever been in. While I was hardly able to do the slightest bit of work without suffering, my husband was stricken with a very painful disease which the doctors said was either a cancer or a double rupture of the bowels. We had the best of doctors, who said there was no hope of his ever getting well, that it was only a matter of time; and he was sent home from the hospital to die. My own condition was alarming and I felt that if we ever recovered it would be through the power of God. The doctor who attended my husband daily did not give me much encouragement as to my ever getting well. My voice was so weak that it hurt me to talk. I was a complete physical wreck, due to trouble, overwork, and reduced finances. We lived in a strange neighborhood and had no friends or relatives near, which added more to my sorrow. In the words of the psalmist, "In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me," and delivered me from all of my troubles.

As I turned from my husband's bedside one day with a heavy heart, a still, small voice seemed to say, "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man." I then asked God to help me to trust in Him, and as I did so this thought came to me: "According to your faith be it unto you." I then asked God for faith, and I got my Bible and made a vow that I would try to obey God first, and I asked Him to "create in me a clean heart." I set apart two hours each day for reading the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and I told the doctor that I believed my husband would recover. He made no reply until I made the statement the third time, when he said, "No one was ever known to live with the disease your husband has." I said, "Doctor, I have not given up hope that God will cure him." I kept up the study of the Bible and Science and Health every day, and after the doctors had all left him he started to gain a little each day as I prayed.

I began to get better, little by little, and felt that God was with me continually. My husband was soon able to take the trip to his sister's, where he remained during the summer. He said he could see himself improving every day and in the fall he came home looking much better. He said the hard lump in his stomach was getting very small, and after a few weeks it had all gone; he had fully recovered and looked like a new man. He had gained in weight and looked younger. He later called to see his old doctor, who was so surprised to see him that he kept saying, "I don't know what to think of you," and after an examination said, "You are as sound as a nut." My husband said, "I guess it was God who healed me," and the doctor said, "Yes, it was He who cured you." I fully recovered my health, and I could tell of many other blessings I have received. God certainly opened the windows of heaven and poured me out a blessing that there was not room enough to receive it. I understand the Bible better than I ever did before, and I also understand Christian Science better. I love the truth, for the truth has set me free.

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