Testimony of Healing December 19, 1931 Issue

No mere words can express my gratitude for all that...

Henry Graff

No mere words can express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me. From early childhood I had been more or less under the care of doctors. At the age of fifteen I was sent East, returning three years later apparently well; but before long I was ordered to the mountains of Colorado, the doctors stating that I had tuberculosis of the lungs and throat. While there I went through a siege of typhoid fever. I returned to Minnesota, after a period of one year, apparently well. After farming in Minnesota up to the year 1900, we left for California, owing mostly to the ill health of our family. All was well for five years, when I again became sick. For the next six years I could not eat a square meal without taking drugs, and during the last three of those years the meals were usually followed by violent vomiting spells. Sleep left me, so that I would pass days and nights counting the hour and half-hour strokes of the clock.

At this time it was agreed that medicine could help me no more, and I was told that whisky might help me a while longer as a stimulant. The first dose affected me so much that all was a blank for several hours. Finally, after a few weeks, I was able to doze off for an hour or two during the twenty-four, but I had to increase the doses. By the end of a year I could drink two to three quarts a week, but could get no sleep at all.

At this point a friend of mine, a Christian Scientist, called on me in my mountain home, and in the evening took out of his pocket "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and read to me for fifteen minutes. He then asked me what I thought of it. I replied that if he read until doomsday it could avail me nothing. But on returning to my valley home I mentioned the matter to my wife. She saw a ray of hope, and said, "You have tried everything that medicine and doctors could do, and now you go and try Christian Science, for if it helped your friend it can help you."

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