Testimony of Healing May 31, 1930 Issue

About twenty years ago I was in a desperate condition,...

Clara M. Hinton

About twenty years ago I was in a desperate condition, mentally and physically. I had been doctoring for many years, and had submitted to a severe operation; but while helped in one way, I did not regain strength and was most miserable and despondent.

Osteopathy was faithfully tried for over a year for socalled hereditary constipation, hemorrhoids, and stricture, but without the slightest improvement; so I again turned to medicine as my only hope. At this time several doctors told me that I could never be cured of the so-called hereditary constipation, but that another operation would be necessary to save my life. I felt it was hardly worth while to go through so much torture again, with possibly no better results; and when a neighbor, a Christian Scientist, asked me why I did not try Christian Science I laughed at the thought, thinking Christian Scientists did not believe pain to be real, whereas I was sure of its reality. However, as I was suffering so much that I could hardly stand, I decided it could not harm me and consented to have a practitioner called by telephone and asked to give me absent treatment. The practitioner was told only of the severe pain in my side, and when she asked to speak with me, I could scarcely answer, but was greatly impressed by her cheerful and confident voice. At her direction I went to bed, and for the first time in weeks slept all night. I wakened in the morning free. I went to see the practitioner that morning, and shall never forget the experience—the uplifted feeling after a short talk and treatment. During the treatment I was healed of the hereditary constipation, hemorrhoids, and stricture.

On leaving the practitioner's home I felt as though a heavy burden had been lifted from my shoulders, and I wanted to sing and shout for joy. The healings have been permanent; the joy has remained. Through the reading of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, severe headaches which had bothered me much of the time, disappeared—just when, I do not know, but I suddenly realized that I had not had one for a long time.

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