Testimony of Healing October 24, 1931 Issue

It is now about sixteen years since I was led to investigate...

Allene McFadden with contributions from Aubrey O. McFadden

It is now about sixteen years since I was led to investigate Christian Science. I was then suffering from a complication of diseases diagnosed by physicians as a tubercular condition of the kidneys, enlarged liver, and gall bladder trouble, which had persistently refused to yield after nine years of medical treatment. Two serious operations failed to give relief. After the second the surgeon said he could do nothing more for me, and recommended that my husband take me to Chicago, where I could have better medical care. Soon after we arrived in Chicago the physician told me I could not live more than three months unless I underwent another operation, and that if I survived the operation I might live a year or eighteen months.

Then my brother-in-law presented Christian Science to me, saying it would heal me. I knew nothing whatever about Christian Science. I had been taught as a child that God sent affliction, sickness, disease, and death. Shortly after taking up the study of Christian Science I learned of a God of infinite love, who sends only good to His children. I had studied the Bible all my life, having read it through twice, yet I had not gained the right understanding of God. Through the study and application of Christian Science I was soon restored to health, happiness, and usefulness. Our home was reëstablished (we had lived in a boarding house for a long time), and in a very short while I was able to care for it and do things I had not been able to do for years.

I have experienced many healings in the past sixteen years. One I should like to mention was an instantaneous healing of pneumonia. I had been ill for several days, had completely collapsed, and was unconscious. My husband called a practitioner, absent treatment was given, and in less than an hour I was able to arise. The next day I took up my duties in our local Reading Room, completely free and well. The healing was permanent. I also experienced a healing of sprained ankle, so that in a short time I was able to walk nine blocks with no ill effects. Before taking up the study of Christian Science I had had a similar experience, and under medical treatment could not walk for several days, and was not able to wear my shoe for three weeks.

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