Testimony of Healing May 21, 1955 Issue

Seven years ago I felt that I had...

Arthur Charles Davis

Seven years ago I felt that I had reached the end of everything. For about four years previously I had been going downwards. Periods of acute depression, accompanied by pains in the head, loss of weight, an internal pain for which I wore a support, insomnia, and periodic attacks of violent temper which left me exhausted and filled with self-condemnation, all went to reduce me to a physical and mental wreck.

For the insomnia a doctor prescribed sleeping tablets, which at first gave me more hours of sleep. However, as the effects of these wore off, I commenced to take them at an increased rate. At last, even with the help of the greater dose, I could get only about four hours' sleep each night. I then started to take the tablets during the day also and was constantly in a drugged condition. Although I knew this practice was wrong, I could not stop it. It was as if I were living in a nightmare.

One day when I felt that I could go on no longer, the thought suddenly came to me to ask a woman, who I knew was a Christian Scientist, if she could help me. Why I did so, I do not know; for at that time I was not aware that Christian Science heals. I called her on the telephone, and she asked me to come to her home the following day. In despair I said, "Oh, but you will help me now, won't you?" Within an hour of making this call I was instantaneously healed. For the first time in years I felt happy, and I experienced a wonderful sense of freedom, as though a heavy weight had been lifted from my shoulders.

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