Testimony of Healing March 25, 1972 Issue

With joy and in gratitude to God I wish to testify that Christian Science...

Chloe Hershman Shook

With joy and in gratitude to God I wish to testify that Christian Science heals after all other methods have failed.

I had been out of high school two years, owing to a chronic illness, when I became seriously ill with pneumonia, brain fever, and an internal abscess, which caused peritonitis. After I had been delirious for a month, the doctor said I could live only a few days. A sister called a Christian Science practitioner in a distant city and asked for prayerful help. She agreed to help me through prayer if my sister would get permission from my parents to dismiss the doctor. But my parents knew nothing of Science and were very fearful. They wanted to wait and see how I was when the doctor made his regular call the next day.

However, when he came again, he said to my mother, with tears rolling down his cheeks, "Your daughter is better. This is the work of God. There were so many complications that I have been helpless. I have been coming only to comfort you." So then the doctor was dismissed. The next day I began recognizing members of my family, and in two weeks I was able to be up and about the house. The acute diseases were healed. The healing of the chronic trouble came gradually, and I was able to resume my schooling.

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