Testimony of Healing May 27, 1944 Issue

I wish to express my heartfelt...

Ethel M. Russell

I wish to express my heartfelt thanks for Christian Science and the loving practitioner who, in one treatment, restored me to health and a normal life after several years of intense suffering from a severe stomach condition. I had consulted many doctors in the East and had been given many kinds of medical treatment. About five years ago, in the middle of the night, an ulcer broke in my stomach. The loss of blood was so great that a doctor who was hastily called said he could call an ambulance but that I could not live to reach the hospital. He gave me a hypodermic injection to quiet me and left, saying he would return at daylight.

My twenty-two year old son was alone with me, and as he watched me he felt that my life was all but gone. I was unconscious the entire time.

About two o'clock my son remembered that a woman had left the names of two Christian Science practitioners at our home, and, feeling that he needed immediate help, he selected the name of one and telephoned to her, telling her of my condition. At this time neither my son nor I knew much about Christian Science. The practitioner assured him that I was safe and all would be well, and asked him to read aloud to me from the Bible. We did not have the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, at that time. My son returned to my side and began to read aloud to me, even though I was unconscious, and he tells me that in less than ten minutes a change took place in my condition and I fell into a natural sleep. At seven o'clock I awoke, feeling no effects of the night's experience. I was hungry and wanted my breakfast, but my son feared to let me eat, and he again called the practitioner. She reassured him, and I enjoyed a light breakfast. Later that morning I too talked with her, and she gave me courage and advised as to my reading and how to direct my thoughts. My son had dismissed the doctor, and when a few days later this doctor met me on the street he said it was a miracle that I was up at all.

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