Testimony of Healing September 20, 1958 Issue

It is with a heart overflowing...

Albert J. Slater

It is with a heart overflowing with loving gratitude that I submit this testimony of the first fruits of my harvesting in Christian Science. With the Psalmist I can say (Ps. 30:2), "O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me."

In 1937 I collapsed with a serious heart attack. After giving me medical treatment, the doctor stated that I would never be able to work again. Since I had a family, a wife and three children, to support, this verdict brought on a nervous breakdown. I was also suffering from digestive trouble and an inflamed condition of the prostate gland. The beliefs of old age set in, and I found it difficult even to read.

The impulse to commit suicide during this time was most acute; but my faith in God was my staff and enabled me to prove that "man's extremity is God's opportunity." In 1951 a neighbor whom I had often tried to encourage during his trials came to visit me. He gave me some papers which he said a friend had just given him, and he added that he had no time for them. I glanced at them, thanked him, and put them on the bed.

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