Testimony of Healing November 7, 1925 Issue

My attention was first drawn to Christian Science just...

Samuel Shearer

My attention was first drawn to Christian Science just after I had resigned my position as an elder of the United Free Church. On hearing about the Christian Scientists' affirmation that God is Love and God is All, I became interested and attended a few of their meetings. At this time I was particularly busy in political circles, but felt that if I had the time Christian Science would be worth studying. I then had no need of physical healing.

In the spring of 1919, however, I was compelled to remain in bed because of very severe pain in my ankle. Our doctor was sent for, and for four weeks he treated me for rheumatism. At the end of that time my ankle was in such a condition that the doctor gave me the name of a surgeon who had successfully operated on him. Before going to the hospital I asked for treatment from a Christian Science practitioner; but I was impatient, and because I was not healed after the first treatment, came to the conclusion that my knowledge of the subject was not sufficient to meet the case.

Thinking that the surgeon would simply make an incision and let me go home, I went to the hospital quite optimistic. My experience, however, was very different. A slight operation revealed the fact that the trouble was deeper than expected; and when on the operating table I heard the surgeon diagnosing my case as a tubercular ankle, I lost consciousness in the frame of mind that perhaps it might be the lesser of two evils if I never awoke. After that I was a well-known figure on the operating table. Medical students were lectured about my ankle so well and so often that I thought that any day the surgeon did not appear I could quite easily take his place as lecturer! My first term in the hospital was twenty-two weeks; and after that period I was allowed to go out with crutches, my leg in plaster of Paris. At intervals I was out and in. The total time I spent in the hospital was ten months. On one occasion when there I contracted scarlet fever and was hurried to a fever hospital. I sank very rapidly at this time, the doctors declaring that the trouble had been transferred to my throat. For seventeen days I had no sleep, and milk and the white of an egg were all they could get down my throat.

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