Testimony of Healing December 11, 1948 Issue

We read in the Bible that Jesus...

George Frederick Hall

We read in the Bible that Jesus healed all manner of disease, including that of epilepsy. This testimony is given with a deep sense of gratitude to God and to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and with the hope that it may give courage to someone who is a victim of this disease.

During the First World War I served with His Majesty's Forces overseas and experienced severe shell shock, which brought on neurasthenia in a severe form. After spending many months in hospital, I was discharged and pronounced unfit for any further military service. My health gradually became worse, until one day I was seized with an epileptic fit, which rendered me unconscious for over two hours. A doctor who was called in not only pronounced the case incurable, but said that the attacks would become more frequent as time went on. I accepted this verdict and became filled with fear. Precisely as foretold by the doctor, the attacks became more and more frequent; before recovering from one I would be stricken down by another.

For many years my existence was a misery Whilst I was in this state of despair, a friend invited me to attend a Christian Science service that was being hold in a small country town near by. I accompanied him and was so impressed that a faint hope dawned for me for the first time. I was so uplifted by this first visit that I could not keep away and attended every service when humanly possible. Later on I was accepted as a member of the small society. I became more and more enlightened about God and man's relation to Him, and as this understanding grew, I noticed that the fits became less frequent. Imagine the joy it was to me to begin to experience even a small degree of normal health, for I had never thought this possible for me.

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