Testimony of Healing January 29, 1938 Issue

For a period of about five years during my teens until...

Holton M. Kennedy

For a period of about five years during my teens until young manhood I worked in a drug store after school hours. From this experience I thought I had learned the things that were good for my health and those that were not. If any ailment came to me I would apply some of the things I had learned in the drug store, or else use will power and say, "It is only minor."

Several years ago I awakened one morning at about three o'clock with a sick stomach, and the material ways of handling this failed to work. I struggled along until daybreak, when the sickness seemed to leave the stomach and develop into a cough. I suffered with the cough for about two weeks before I decided to go to a doctor. The doctor's diagnosis was incipient tuberculosis; and he advised me to give up my work for a year and go to bed and stay there. Not being satisfied with his diagnosis, I decided to go to our old family doctor, in whom we had great confidence. His diagnosis was the same. In accordance with the state and city health laws, a nurse from a station in my neighborhood visited me. She advised me as to what I should do, and insisted that I go to the station once each week.

After I had labored under these conditions for a period of two or three months, wondering and worrying as to whether I should visit the station, Christian Science was presented to me by a friend. I began to attend the church services and to feel somewhat better, but the cough remained. I was then led to seek the services of a practitioner. After a few treatments I began to improve, and was entirely healed in about four months. I again visited the family doctor. He examined me and stated that he would be glad to send in my release to the health department, for he considered me entirely healed. When he asked me what I had done, I told him that I had had Christian Science treatment.

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