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Testimonies of Healing

Being healed by Truth, I feel it my duty to give testimony

From the May 1889 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Being healed by Truth, I feel it my duty to give testimony. I was a sufferer from childhood, and tried physician after physician of all the schools, but found no permanent relief. My complaints were: Spinal trouble, nervousness, paralysis, and dislocation of hip; the latter caused in early childhood by rheumatism; one limb was four inches shorter than the other, necessitating the wearing of a cork sole. Physicians said the ligament connecting the ball with the socket was broken, and hip would not stay in place when pulled there.

A year ago last September I tried Christian Science, in hopes of being relieved of nervousness and pain, never dreaming of my hip coming into place; but five or six hours after my third treatment, sitting by myself—my hip slipped into place, and has been all right ever since. By actual measurement the hips are even, and limbs of same length. My health is fully restored, after twenty-five years of suffering.—

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