Testimony of Healing December 19, 1936 Issue

One morning I awakened suffering great pain in the...

Mabel H. Edwards

One morning I awakened suffering great pain in the abdomen. As I did not seem to be overcoming the difficulty after a few hours I telephoned to a practitioner for help. For years I had been endeavoring to do more than I seemed to have strength for, and had been struggling with a belief of weariness. I had also been trying to carry the burdens and solve the problems of other members of my family, instead of letting them work out their own salvation.

The rest of my family are not Christian Scientists, and a member who was with me at this time became very much alarmed over my condition, and telephoned to my brother, who came to see me and insisted that I be examined by our old family doctor even though I did not follow his advice. I realized that this request was prompted by loving concern on the part of my relatives, and finally consented to have the doctor come. After taking my temperature he seemed surprised that I had no fever. After thoroughly examining me he told the family, though I did not know it until some time later, that evidently there had been a locked bowel, and if some material remedies were not used at once, he predicted that paralysis of the bowels would result. When the doctor asked me if he could not give me something to relieve me, I thanked him and said, "No, I am having the help I desire."

I might say that by that time I was convinced that the illness was healed, though the healing was not yet evident. The results desired by the doctor were quickly brought about without the use of medicine, and I felt as if I were standing on holy ground and had been freed from much materiality. I wanted to say to my friends, "See what the Lord hath done for me!"

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