Before learning of Christian Science I had suffered from...

Emma Weber

Before learning of Christian Science I had suffered from indigestion until I had become very weak and emaciated. It was so bad that the doctor said I would have to go to the hospital and be treated, and that it would take about two months to cure me. I was obliged to have my stomach pumped out every day, and any one can understand how I dreaded this ordeal.

A week before it was decided that I should go to the hospital my husband went east on business, and while waiting in Portland for his train he called on some friends who had been healed through Christian Science. They gave him such convincing accounts that he decided to write a letter to me telling me what it had done for his friends, and said that I could be healed too, if I could believe. He told me that I should have to take no medicine, and that it was the divine power of God that was to heal me. We had never heard of Christian Science before, and this was something very new to me.

I mentioned the fact to several of my acquaintances, but they said it was all a humbug, insisting that the times are different now, and that the people are different from what they were in the time of Jesus.

My husband wrote to me, that I did not have to try Christian Science unless I wished to, but I felt that I could be healed and so decided to try it, regardless of what my friends here said of it; for it seemed to me that I was being guided into the right path. When I arrived in Portland, the friends who told us of Christian Science took me to the practitioner, and I was healed with a single treatment, and when I was ready to leave his office he told me I might go home and eat of anything that I liked for supper.

Prior to the treatment the only things that I could eat without causing me pain, were very soft boiled eggs and malted milk, and to sit down to the table and eat of anything that I liked was something that I had not been able to do for over four years. But I felt that I could do as the practitioner had told me, so I put my whole trust in God and did eat of everything that I liked. I tried to realize that I was the child of God, and my supper did not cause me the least bit of pain. That night I slept like a child, and when I awoke in the morning I was ready for a good breakfast. Not only my stomach troubles disappeared, but other diseases also. When my husband returned after a week's time in the East, he found such a change for the better in me that he took up Christian Science too, and after being treated for mental suffering, he was, through a better understanding of God, able to heal himself of sick headache from which he had suffered since he was a boy.

Having thus cited what Christian Science has done for me physically, I cannot find words to express how grateful I am for my mental healing, for I have been raised from the depths of despair. I was very nervous and very disagreeable and cross, and it seemed that nobody cared for me at all. I was so discouraged and heartsick at times, that I have wished that I might sleep never to wake again, for I said to myself, What good am I to any one when I am so miserable that I cannot even see the good in others.

Now all is changed; where there was discord, there is now harmony, and where there was hate now love and peace reign, and I owe it all to Christian Science.

It is with a heart full of joy and peace, and with deep thankfulness to our Leader and the dear friends who have led me to this blessed Light, that I write this testimony of my healing, and hope that some one who may read may be led as I have been and so be able to free himself of sickness and sin.—Mrs. Emma Weber, Roseburg, Ore.

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