All my life I had been subject to severe sick headaches, but for three years previous to my knowledge of Christian Science I suffered untold agony with headaches that my physicians did not understand, neither could they relieve me of them, or prevent my having them. It was expected that I would die in one of these attacks.
No material means reached my case, and after a time I gave up the doctors, but continued to have these severe attacks. They became more frequent, each weakening me, and bringing on another so much sooner.
I then heard of Christian Science, and as everything else had failed to give me relief, I was willing to try it, and I lost no time by trying to find out what it was. I was glad to try anything, for I knew that without relief I could not live very long and even if I did, life was a burden.
I took treatment from a healer, in Asheville, N. C., for an attack that came on, and felt perfectly well in half an hour. My previous attacks had always lasted two, and sometimes three days.
I had another attack a few days later, but slept all that day. I only realized my suffering when some one would come in my room and awake me, but I would fall asleep again in a few minutes, something I could not do in the old way. Medicines would be given me to make me sleep, but my sufferings were too great, I could not sleep a minute.
My healer continued treatment for a month, but that is the only attack I have had since my first treatment. It is now nearly two years. Previous to Christian Science treatment I had two, three, and sometimes four attacks a month.
Since that time, several other claims have been overcome. In 1900 I was also healed of blood poison, which had gone to my lungs. I suffered so I could not lie down, and could only get my breath in gasps, but as soon as the healer gave me a treatment, the distress immediately vanished, as quickly and completely as if I had never had a symptom of it. In the same year I took treatment for a liver trouble; that trouble also disappeared at once.
I have demonstrated the Truth a great many times for myself. I had never been well a day in my life up to two years ago, and there were few days that I did not take medicine of some kind. Since then I have not taken any medicine and am perfectly well most of the time.
Sometimes claims arise to be overcome to keep the proofs before me, that Truth is ever-present to help us in times of need.
For those blessings I cannot express my gratitude; but the spiritual uplifting, the clearer understanding it gives us of the Bible, and the sweet assurance that God is always with us,—these are far greater blessings than the physical healing.— Skyland, N. C.
