Testimonies of Healing
Dear Journal :—In the Spring of '87 for three years I had not done three days' work, and during harvest time of each year was confined to bed from five to seven weeks. Twice in this time, my friends came to see me pass the belief of death.
For eight years I suffered terribly with my eyes. I could not read fifteen minutes without the most agonizing sick headache.
Ponder this. — The writer has been for the past eighteen months, pastor of two Christian Science churches located near each other in an interior State; and a part of that time of a third church in close proximity to the other two.
It was my privilege last summer to spend seven weeks in a country village where many people were longing for something besides drugs to cure them of their beliefs of sickness. My first demonstration over a belief of spinal curvature in a child of three years attracted general notice to Christian Science Mind-Healing.
When I first came to you my eyes were swollen very much and out of place, now they are back in their proper place. When first treated, I had great pain in my eyes, which had continued for years.
About three years ago I was taken with a belief of enlargement of the bowels. I knew nothing about Science then.
I have been a church-member from my eighteenth year, but never till within a few days have I seen how blind I have been. I was sick on my bed the 19th of May so that I could not lift a hand nor bear that anyone should do it for me.
I have been a great sufferer from the time I was a small boy. My belief was that of a rupture, and of the very worst kind.
I wish to give my testimony to the power and efficacy of Christian Science. For three years I have been a helpless suferer from complicated chronic diseases.