It is with gratitude and the hope that someone else may be...

Emil Torkelson

It is with gratitude and the hope that someone else may be helped that I give an account of my healing of tuberculosis.

When I was a child my mother passed on with this disease. Quite naturally, our family had the fear of this sickness planted strongly in our minds. Later on in my life my two brothers and my father passed on with the same ailment. One of my brothers had sought to gain health by changing climates, but this did no good.

After these sad experiences, I wondered if I should also inherit this condition. This fear soon got the best of me, and I too became ill. The family doctor was called by my wife, and after an X ray and examination it was determined that I had tuberculosis. Under the doctors' care I became somewhat better, but was not entirely cured.

Christian Science was then brought to our attention. I can remember how, when I bought "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and was reading it, I wished that our family could have enjoyed this blessed privilege. My wife and I immediately became interested in Science and attended a few lectures. We also began to attend church services, and the help of a practitioner was requested.

The fear that for so long had been my greatest drawback to health was soon banished, and in a few years I was completely healed. An examination by the original doctor in the case, and a release from the contagious list of the Health Department, serve to substantiate this healing.

I am deeply grateful for this healing and for so many other blessings that have come to my family and to me since that time; also for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church.—Emil Torkelson, Chicago, Illinois.

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