Testimonies of Healing
As a testimonial to the healing efficacy of "Truth properly taught and understood. " I will give one item of personal experience.
I was called to a case which the physician had pronounced paralysis of the throat. The patient could swallow no food without throwing much of it back through the nose, and was unable to utter but one intelligible word, viz.
In the Sept. Christian Science Journal , I noticed particularly the article Teachers of Metaphysics.
A very serious case of kidney trouble yielded readily under my treatment. The patient had been afflicted five years; suffered constantly with back-ache; was in despair of getting assistance; had no faith in C.
Chelsea, Mass. I was almost totally blind, and suffered such agony with one eye as only those who saw me can imagine.
Dear Readers : I do not like to speak of my cases, but so much is said that I will submit one or two for the encouragement of doubters. A case of chronic dysentery I healed in three treatments.
[Names and addresses of practitioners and patients noted below furnished on application to Mrs. E.
Dear " Journal ": — I notice in our community that those who practise the Science taught at your College do more than heal the sick with it; they change dispositions, correct inherited tendencies, make unhappy people happy, and divest morbid people of sick fancies. Curious changes are wrought in selfish and bigoted people, and some remarkable cures have been effected in mentally unsound minds.
Am a journalist by profession. Broke down two years ago from overwork in Philadelphia.
Editors "Journal " : — The ministerial statements of the difficulty of finding people to testify to the healing efficacy of applied mental science has been faithfully attended to, and many clergymen have been forced to admit the validity of the Scientists' claims to successful medical practice. A patient who had been cured of inflammatory rheumatism within forty-eight hours from first treatment, went to a Methodist minister here, and gratefully acknowledged the same; also, cited the successful healing of her husband from a serious ailment.