Testimony of Healing September 15, 1934 Issue

Christian Science came to me in an hour of dire need

CLIFFORD J. GROSS

Christian Science came to me in an hour of dire need. About six years ago I suffered a severe nervous breakdown. Then began a battle for health that lasted nearly a year. Many material systems of healing were tried and found wanting. I spent all that I had, "and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse."

At this time I contracted pleurisy of the lungs and was sent to a hospital, where I suffered three relapses and was confined to bed for eleven weeks. I was finally discharged from the hospital with tuberculosis, caused by the pleurisy, and a bad case of phlebitis. Specialists advised me that it would take at least ten years to recover from the phlebitis, and they prescribed eggnogs and cod liver oil to enable me to gain weight. After two months I gained no weight, and, feeling the old nervousness coming back, I had indeed reached "man's extremity."

At this point I suddenly remembered a Christian Science healing many years before of a neighbor's little girl. It was an instantaneous healing of blindness and had been the cause of much wonder and comment by those who knew of it. In desperation I sought out a friend whom I knew to be a Christian Scientist, and he lovingly directed me to a practitioner. During my first visit to the practitioner's home I was instantly healed of the tubercular condition, and gained forty pounds in the next twelve weeks. The phlebitis was overcome completely in about three weeks, and two months after starting treatment I marched in a parade two miles without any fatigue or after effects. The nervous condition, however, was more stubborn, and required constant study on my part. During this study other physical ailments, including chronic constipation and headaches, disappeared. I was also lifted out of very inharmonious surroundings. Through witnessing these healings my entire family and several friends were led into the study of Christian Science; and I have never ceased to be grateful that I was the agency through which this truth was brought to them. My father was healed of severe burns received in an explosion, and not a scar remained. My mother was healed in a few hours of cerebral hemorrhage. My daughter was healed of hay fever. I have also been healed of grief after the passing on of a loved one.

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