Testimony of Healing July 4, 1953 Issue

While eating my lunch in a...

Ashley L. Gleason

While eating my lunch in a restaurant close to my place of business I was suddenly overcome by a condition of shock, followed by paralysis. I was conscious of being carried, then of feeling the motion of an ambulance and hearing the siren as we raced through the streets. After that I lost consciousness completely.

Soon I was revived and was asked the name of my doctor. I replied that I had no doctor, as I was a Christian Scientist. I was informed that I was in a receiving hospital and that, since the rules of the hospital were that no patient could be retained over two hours, I must be removed to another hospital. I requested that I be taken home, but was told that I was in a most serious condition and that my wife and daughter were on their way to see me. Desiring to send a message to a practitioner, I asked a nurse to make the call for me and to report back to me as soon as she completed the message. The nurse soon returned and reported that my practitioner had received my message and assured her that all would be well.

The doctor continued to examine me, making notes of my condition on a chart. Soon the pressure on my head began to clear up, and I regained feeling in my right side, which had been paralyzed. More doctors arrived, and they consulted on my case, which had begun to show sudden improvement. Soon one of the doctors asked me if I would remain in that hospital for a while, as they had no record of any case like mine ever improving in such a short time. I requested that I be allowed to go home, however, as soon as my wife and daughter came. The doctors consented to this, and with the help of the nurse I walked to my daughter's car and was taken home.

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