Healed of Many Ills by Christian Science

Florence Winfield

I was never very strong, but suffered during my childhood from headache and backache, which finally culminated in a life of invalidism. For nearly twenty years I was never for a moment free from pain. I was confined to my bed, unable to sit up at all, for sixteen years. I suffered the most excruciating agony from neuralgia, caused by a broken-down nervous system, spinal affection, and internal troubles. I, too, suffered many things of many physicians, who I believe did the best they could for me, but only one seemed to give me any relief, and that was but for a short time.

For fourteen months I wore a plaster of paris brace, and was worse at the end of that time than when I began. Last of all I tried the electropoise, and after using it eight months I thought my days on earth were numbered, as did all my friends. I wrote what I believed to be my last letters, and quietly waited for the end.

At this time I heard of Christian Science, and decided to try it just as an experiment. I began to improve at once, and gained steadily, though my recovery was slow. With many others, I could see that this was an advantage rather than a drawback, as I gained spiritually. A realization of this great Truth began to dawn upon my understanding, wherein old things pass away and all things become new. I received three months' absent treatment from a faithful practitioner in Baltimore, Md., who led me so patiently and tenderly but firmly into this new-old Truth. After the three months' regular treatment she stopped treating me, and I called for help when I needed it until I finally came out of the error that had held me in bondage for so many years. I soon began to demonstrate for myself and to help others.

About eighteen months after my first treatment, with my own feeble understanding of Truth I was able to have eleven teeth extracted without the slightest pain, and without using an anæsthetic. The dentist afterwards recommended Christian Science to other patients. I have been brought out of great mental trouble, typhoid fever of five weeks' duration, rheumatism, and many other seeming ills, by Christian Science. My heart goes up to God and to our Leader in great gratitude for the benefits I have received, and for the revelation to humanity of this glorious Truth.—Florence Winfield, Chocowinity, N. C.

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