Testimony of Healing December 15, 1934 Issue

When about six years old I asked to be allowed to attend...

Howard M. Knapp

When about six years old I asked to be allowed to attend a Christian Science Sunday School which some of my boy friends were attending. While my mother was not a Christian Scientist, she permitted me to attend. I loved the teachings in this Sunday School, and very soon learned that God heals all diseases.

When about the age of nine I was taken to a dentist to have some teeth extracted. This was followed by a severe hemorrhage, which lasted for two or three weeks. During this time medical aid was given, but to no avail. I had heard my mother tell of several members in her family bleeding to death, and I know now that I was filled with a terrible fear. I kept asking for Christian Science help. Finally the doctor said I should have to be taken to the hospital for a serum injection. Then I asked again for a practitioner and declared I would not be taken to a hospital. My mother called a practitioner, and that night the flow of blood began to abate and I was able to sleep. The next day I was able to go to the practitioner, and the second day I was entirely healed.

At about the age of fourteen I was doing some high jumping and fell, striking a shin bone against the sharp edge of a concrete structure, which bruised and tore the flesh. As I did not think it was serious I neither asked for help nor did I study and work as I should have done. I had on black hose and did not remove them until I retired that evening, at which time I found it rather painful to remove the stocking from the flesh. My leg had become quite sore and inflamed, and continued to grow worse until it was badly swollen and discolored. The pain reached to my hips and into the groins, and I could not move either leg without great pain. As my mother and father were not Christian Scientists, they were naturally filled with fear and thought it best that I let them call a doctor. But my faith was in God. I expressed my appreciation of their love and anxiety, but asked them to let me have a Christian Science practitioner. I said, "I am not afraid to die, should it come to that, but I want Christian Science help." My mother then called the practitioner, who came at once. Opening Science and Health she read to me. I immediately began to improve and in a very few days was in a normal condition.

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