Testimony of Healing September 29, 1928 Issue

I had been ailing for almost six years

Annie McInnes with contributions from Colin McInnes

I had been ailing for almost six years. Many doctors, of various schools, were faithfully tried. All were most kind to me and did the best they could to help; but not one of them seemed able to diagnose my trouble. I suffered constantly from severe backache, neuritis in my hands, sleeplessness, and an almost constant burning sensation in my sides and back, so that I could not bear my clothes to touch my skin. This condition was said to be caused by too much acid in the blood and poor circulation. A surgical operation was advised and submitted to. Adhesions were found, and two organs, which had become cystic, were removed. This experience left me in a worse condition than before. Inflammation of the bladder set in and caused me unfold suffering. Two days after I left the hospital, pneumonia and gastritis attacked me, and I was in a very bad state.

Shortly after this I was asked why I did not try Christian Science, but as I had heard only what was untrue about it, I would have nothing to do with it, believing that if the doctors could not heal me, how could Christian Science? So I continued to suffer. Rheumatism was now added, also a severe pain in the back of my neck. On account of rheumatism I was ordered to leave San Francisco and seek a warmer climate, so we moved; and after some time I was told that nothing more could be done for me, although another operation might help.

Being of an energetic nature, I resented the enforced stiffness and inability to move around freely. I was most unhappy and tired of living. Then it was proved to me beyond a doubt that "man's extremity is God's opportunity." A dear lady, a neighbor, talked to me of Christian Science, and I listened. She offered to let me read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and I accepted her offer. "I took the little book ... and ate it up." At last I had found just what I was hungering and thirsting after. I sat for hours poring over the pages of the precious book and memorizing passages from it, so that I had them with me during the night or when I had to go out. The Bible began to show signs of wear, instead of being just a beautiful gilt-edged book lying at my bedside. Now I could understand it. I had found the "key" which unlocked the treasure house, and I went in and took God at His word. I was completely healed in less than three months just through the study and application of the truth.

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