Testimonies of Healing

After exhausting all other known means, it was as a physical wreck that I found that the Christ-Truth of the Scriptures, as revealed through the Christian Science textbook, sufficed to save. I had practised dental surgery so much of twenty years as my tyrannical body would allow, and with a fixed belief in the power of material medication, my religion was but superficial, and my subjugation to matter laws complete.

Some time in April, 1900, I was taken sick in Pueblo, Col. , with a severe pain in the head.

I have long felt a desire to tell of my physical healing and what Christian Science has done for me and my dear ones. I had a trouble for thirty-four years, which caused inflammation of the kidneys and nervous prostration.

Among the Mexicans who attend our services is a sewing woman named Susana Mendez, who is a Christian Scientist, and is a diligent worker in the Cause. She was the first Mexican to embrace Christian Science, and her husband soon followed.

I suffered for over twelve years from severe and chronic neuralgia, accompanied by the most painful headaches. These occurred about every two weeks during the twelve years; they were so terrible that I was compelled to go to bed,—and, to allay the pain, physicians would recommend my taking drugs.

In the spring of 1898 a lady told me how she had been helped by Christian Science, and through her testimony, I was led into Science. I was very ill at the time, the result of an accident which occurred years before, having been thrown from a horse, and receiving internal injuries, from which the doctor said I would suffer all my life.

In the fall of 1896 a Christian Science Journal was handed me by a lady member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, but after reading it I laid it aside and thought no more of it, and had forgotten it until the other day when I found the Journal among some old papers, and I now prize it very highly. About a year ago my wife purchased "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G.

During the past few years I have been more or less in ill health, my chief trouble being chronic constipation, which finally terminated in a complication of female disorders from which I suffered to such an extent that I was persuaded early in November of last year to enter a sanitarium in Fresno, where, after an examination I was told that an operation was necessary in order to save my life. Consequently I was put under the influence of chloroform for two hours, an incision was made in the abdomen and one of the organs was removed, also a tumor of some kind.

Recently I was called to see my nine-year-old grand-daughter who was suffering from typhoid fever. I got there on Wednesday, the ninth day of her illness.

I went to the dentist to have my first double tooth taken out because a new tooth was coming. The tooth was very solid and I couldn't move it, but the dentist said it ought to come out, and asked mamma if he should give me something so that I should not feel the pain; but I said no, and I told him I had no fear.