Testimony of Healing September 16, 1922 Issue

I feel that it is a duty to tell what Christian Science...

William L. Avey

I feel that it is a duty to tell what Christian Science has done for me. About two years ago it healed me of what the doctors called cancerous fistula, which had given me trouble for about a year. Previously I had been compelled to give up and go to the hospital. The physician examined me and pronounced my case incurable; and he would not operate on me, but told me to go home and not exert myself in the least. I grew worse day by day. A member of my family was told by the physician that I might die at any time; but he warned her not to tell me, as the fear of it might prove instantly fatal. However, I was told of my condition. I then decided to go to Baltimore to see a Christian Science practitioner, as I had heard quite a bit about Christian Science.

The morning after reaching Baltimore I started out, trusting God to guide me to the right practitioner; and He did. When I entered her office I found many ahead of me. While awaiting my turn, I picked up a Christian Science Sentinel, and as I read the good tidings they seemed as a boat drifting toward a drowning man. When I entered the practitioner's office, I told her my trouble; and she explained so lovingly man's relationship to God. When the treatment was over, the pain was gone: I felt like a new man. I walked fifteen blocks to the rooming house; and, after reading for an hour or two, I decided to take another walk. I walked all the afternoon, without the least sign of weakness or pain. To me this was more than wonderful; as the day before I had hardly been able to walk fifty yards from my home to the train. The next morning I saw the practitioner and told her I was as strong as I had ever been in my life; and I returned to my home the next day. I spent the balance of that day, Sunday, reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; and on Monday I returned to work at my old job. Every one was surprised to see me at work again. No one could understand what had happened. My work was very hard manual labor, and when my friends saw how easily I could do it, just as I had done it before I was sick, they began to ask questions about my healing; and I was delighted to answer them as well as I could. I have never felt any return of the old trouble, and have been employed ever since at hard labor.

I am grateful to God, to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and to the practitioner who so kindly treated me.

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