Testimony of Healing May 24, 1930 Issue

In August, 1920, I was to human sense a very miserable...

Laura J. Keller

In August, 1920, I was to human sense a very miserable woman. I was doubled up with rheumatism and could not walk without some material help. The joints of my hands were so swollen and drawn out of their natural shape that I could not hold anything in the right manner. I was in a very despairing condition, so much so that the thought of self-destruction came frequently.

When things seemed at their worst my husband came home from business and said: "Why not try Christian Science? I have a man working for me whose wife is a Christian Science practitioner." At this moment I was standing and bracing myself at a kitchen cabinet, as I could not stand straight. I commenced to think over what my husband said; then the thought came, Why not try something else? Right then I made a vow to give up all medicine, all my old ideas and customs of prayer, and try to learn what God really is—try to know Him aright; His will would be my will, and whatever God saw fit to do with me with that I would be satisfied. When I got through thinking of this and noticed what the body was doing, I found I was standing straight and not needing any support, and all pain had gone.

I ate a hearty dinner with my husband, the first in three months. I had been on a diet of Graham crackers and milk, taking five kinds of medicine, hot water baths at night, and getting worse all the time. I had been a sufferer from rheumatism and other ailments for over four years and had had many doctors, who all said that I never would be entirely free from this disease and that I would not last long, as hardening of the arteries was noticeable.

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