Testimony of Healing November 3, 1934 Issue

I am very grateful for Christian Science, for the unumbered...

Shadrack Morse with contributions from Ada Morse

I am very grateful for Christian Science, for the unumbered blessings it has brought to me and to my home, and for what it has done and is doing for humanity. It is indeed with deep gratitude that I can look back on my first experience in Christian Science.

Fifteen years ago neither my wife nor I had ever heard of this Science, and it was apparently unknown in the town in which we live. At that time our little boy, aged seven, who had been subject to many ills of the flesh, was recovering from a long and severe illness, when my wife was taken very ill with what was said to be a weak chest. I had been a semi-invalid for many years, and a few weeks later I was taken ill and was in great agony for five weeks without any relief; then the doctors gave me but a few hours to live. It was on this day that a literature distribution worker brought Christian Science to me. She had come from a church in London, fourteen miles away, to make a new district for distribution work. On her first visit she had seen me at my work at a factory gate near the station approach and had given me some Christian Science literature. On this particular day she came down and, missing me from my post and learning that I was ill, she very lovingly came to my house. After a brief explanation of Christian Science, she gave me a treatment, and I was healed of tuberculosis. When the doctor called I told him that I was quite well and asked him not to call again. I soon went back to my work. My wife, our little boy, and I all accepted Christian Science like little children. We seemed to be living in a new world, and much sickness disappeared.

When I got to my work I wrote to that friend and invited her to come and spend the next Sunday with us. She came, and lovingly guided my wife and two friends and me through a Christian Science service in our home. After coming to us for two or three Sunday services, she told me that she was going away for some time; but the little Christian Science services continued. She returned to us after about six months, and a few weeks later the group numbered about thirty, kept a small Reading Room open daily, and had secured church premises.

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