Testimony of Healing February 11, 1922 Issue

I wish to express my very deep gratitude to God for a...

W. A. Burns

I wish to express my very deep gratitude to God for a healing which took place in 1919 through the knowledge of Christian Science.

I was, to material sense, attacked with rheumatism in the legs, whilst serving with the British Army on the western front, just after the armistice had been signed, and we had returned from Germany and were resting on the Belgian frontier. The weather was bitterly cold, and although I continually read passages from Science and Health, my understanding was obscure; and finally I was sent by an army doctor to a casualty clearing hospital in Belgium. I was ordered to bed, and on examination by the doctors it was pronounced that the rheumatism had left me with valvular heart disease, so that I was not allowed to get up at all. I continued to read Science and Health, but after three weeks, instead of progressing I was to mortal mind rather worse and could not be moved. I then thought I would ask for absent treatment, but there appeared many obstacles to getting permission for a telegram to be sent through army headquarters to a practitioner in Dublin; so I approached the Church of England chaplain, who kindly said he would do it for me. This he did, and the principal medical officers, after asking me to alter somewhat my wording, allowed the telegram to be sent. The kind practitioner on receipt of my telegram started to work lovingly for me, and within a few hours I was moved from the casualty clearing station to the railway line, and awaited an ambulance train for the coast. After many medical examinations I finally reached the coast feeling fairly fit again, and was finally sent to England. At Leicester I was certified quite fir and with no trace of valvular disease of the heart, and was sent away on leave. I would like to mention that from the time I sent the telegram to the time I was sent on leave and pronounced fit about ten days elapsed, and during that time I was not given another dose of medicine.

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the dear practitioner who helped me so much, and for the loving thought which quickly overcame all material obstacles, and for those beautiful words which are so helpful (Science and Health, p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."

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