Testimonies of Healing
Several years ago I had the misfortune to sustain a fracture of the left leg which healed under surgical treatment after a somewhat protracted confinement. After I was able to get about again I experienced more or less difficulty in walking, and was obliged to use a crutch or cane even when traveling a comparatively short distance.
I desire to tell through the Journal of my almost miraculous healing, miraculous to any who have not learned in Christian Science the omnipotence of Truth. In the year 1898 I was under the care of two doctors who told me I was suffering from internal trouble, heart and lung disease, so they thought it desirable to perform a surgical operation.
During the late summer and early autumn days of the year just past we had in our family a case of typhoid fever, which brought out a most beautiful demonstration of the power of Love and Truth over error. The patient was my son, a lad of eighteen, who wanted no treatment but Christian Science, and had no other.
I feel impelled to give to the Field some of the good that false pride has many times persuaded me to withhold. I came into this beautiful truth over five years ago, and never once have I been sorry for the step taken.
About eight years ago, I first saw Science and Health. I took it up and read a few pages but could not understand it.
I became interested in Christian Science in January, 1900. Up to that time I don't suppose I had darkened the door of a church more than a dozen times in thirty-five years.
The blessings that have come to me and to my family through Christian Science are more than can be recounted. It is with a hope that I may help others as I have myself been helped through letters in the Sentinel and Journal that I write these lines.
To reassure and encourage those who have as yet but a small understanding of Christian Science, I give this early experience. Nine years ago this month my only remaining daughter was at the point of death.
Christian Science was first brought to my notice by a friend who had been healed and who lent me Science and Health, which I tried to read but returned in a short time, remarking that I could not understand it. While I was in Chicago during the World's Fair, staying with acquaintances who are Christian Scientists, and who I knew had experienced wonderful healing, this truth was again brought to my notice and rejected.
In September of 1883 I met with a very serious accident. I fell from the second story of a building and received a compound comminuted fracture of one of my legs midway between ankle and knee, the bone protruding through my trousers into the ground.