Testimony of Healing June 2, 1928 Issue

In consequence of dysentery contracted in the tropics in...

Esmond Copland-Griffiths

In consequence of dysentery contracted in the tropics in 1908, I had a very serious attack of internal blood poisoning, so serious that I escaped death by only the merest margin. I was left in very poor health; and although I remained in my profession, which was a military one, after eighteen months' convalescence I hardly ever knew a day when I felt well. I served for three years in the great war, from its commencement. In consequence of another attack of dysentery contracted in Egypt, and overwork, I had a complete mental and physical breakdown, which necessitated my retirement from the army. The misery I endured for the greater part of four years is almost indescribable. I was practically never free from headaches and apparently every conceivable erroneous bodily symptom; but even worse was the mental depression, fear, and worry. I was in a hospital for a year, with only the slightest improvement, all approved forms of medicine and treatment being employed.

After leaving the hospital I lived on a fruit farm for eighteen months. It is only fair to those who were kind enough to help me, to say that after applying autosuggestion, together with a determination to get well, I did seem to get better, until in 1920 I thought I was practically cured; and at any rate life became more tolerable for a time. But early in 1921 I had a very bad return of my former troubles, and nothing seemed to help me. What I had learned in autosuggestion only made matters worse; and medicines were futile. I was desperate, as I feared that I would never get right again, everything I had tried having failed me; and the discouragement of going back, after fighting so long, made me worse.

It was at this time that I heard of Christian Science through a sister who was interested in it, and like a drowning man I clutched at it. I went to a practitioner, and almost at once improvement started. Then I had a very bad time for a month, when every symptom seemed to be aggravated. However, thanks to the great help and kind advice of the practitioner I stuck to Christian Science, and very soon I began to feel the benefit. Rather slowly perhaps, but surely, the mental and physical symptoms began to drop away and lose their hold. I have been in Science just over seven years, and in that time I have made wonderful improvement in health. My wife and relatives hardly know me for the person I once was, and my outlook on life has entirely altered. A few slight returns of the trouble have occurred, but they have always been dispersed either by myself or by a practitioner in a very short time. I have almost entirely lost the fear of this trouble, which no other treatment except Christian Science treatment ever helped permanently. If it had not been for Christian Science I hesitate to think where I should have drifted; and I find that mere words can hardly express the gratitude I feel to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.

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