In July, 1918, while sitting on our porch talking to a...

Herbert D. Hoge

In July, 1918, while sitting on our porch talking to a friend, I was striken physically. I did not know what the trouble was, but it developed rapidly. My appetite left me, I became much winded after climbing stairs, and at night I perspired very heavily. It seemed as though I was starving to death. At the time I was working in Oklahoma, going home only for the week ends.

I worked mentally to the best of my understanding and had absent treatments in Christian Science, but failed to get my healing. This continued until about October, when the president of the company came to the plant. He saw my condition, and it was agreed that I should go home. I made all necessary arrangements, leaving the office on a Thursday. The boys in the office never expected to see me there again. After arriving home I went to the practitioner and received present treatment. On the next Thursday I returned to the plant with a splendid appetite.

The thought of passing on never occurred to me—I knew my healing was sure if I could but realize the truth. No suggestion of the possible failure of Christian Science to cure ever entered my consciousness. What the disease was I never tried to find out; that did not interest me. Had I gone to a physician I presume he would have pronounced it walking typhoid. According to mortal sense testimony I had reached a very low ebb.

I am truly grateful to God that He gave us our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who was pure enough to grasp the truth and give it to us in a form we can understand and apply. I am grateful for the wonderful privilege of class instruction; for membership in The Mother Church and in branch church; for our periodicals; for our lectures; for the watchful care of our Board of Directors in providing for the purity of our periodicals; for the privilege of teaching in the Sunday school and engaging in other activities of the branch church. My observations based on experience are that working, we advance; idling, we retrograde.

Herbert D. Hoge, Carthage, Missouri.

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