Testimony of Healing September 28, 1935 Issue

I have been helped so often by reading the testimonies...

Herbert P. Thomas

I have been helped so often by reading the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals that I feel I should tell of my healings that others may be helped to appreciate the healing which results from a true knowledge of God and man, as set forth in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

I had been a member of The Mother Church for over twelve years when I came to India eight years ago, so I have no excuse to offer for not having done my protective work properly, unless it be that I had not understood how much mortal mind stressed the supposed dangers to health in India. After five weeks in the country I became very unwell, but my duty called me to proceed on a tour of four hundred miles by motor, part of which tour was over mountainous roads. I had to climb on foot over a pass some eight thousand feet above sea level. I knew of no practitioner in India, so I did my own mental work as best I could, although at times my head felt as if it might come apart with the pain. I completed the tour and returned to headquarters, though I drove the last two hundred miles in a seeming mist, with my bearer beside me in the front seat making signs to me from time to time to blow the horn as we approached traffic. When I got to my room one of my fellow officers called the civil surgeon who, with my chief, took me off to a hospital, where I was unconscious for fourteen days, but before I was taken from my room I managed to get my friend to cable for Christian Science treatment, giving him the name and address of a practitioner.

I came out of the hospital in thirty-eight days, though no medical expert thought I would, because I had enteric fever; and according to the physicians' belief the days I had spent on tour before coming to the hospital had allowed the disease to advance so far that they did not expect to defeat it. Two years later, when I was dining at a club, two men who were strangers to me, and who were at my table, discussed my case, mentioning me by name, and spoke of the wonderful recovery.

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