IT is with great pleasure that I give my testimony of healing. I came to Christian Science as a last resort, hoping, and praying that I might in some way escape from what seemed sure death, as I had been suffering for a long time from tubercular disease of the hip. Seven years ago last August I was taken to a hospital, and had all done for me that skilled physicians and nurses could do, but to no avail. The next spring I was much worse, and I was taken to a town twenty miles away (St. Johnsbury) for further treatment by one of the best physicians there. His opinion coincided with that of the other doctors, and he said that I was too weak to endure any more operations. In addition to this I had a very distressing stomach trouble, which the physicians said was occasioned by the hip disease. I had taken no solid food for months, and of course the outlook was anything but encouraging, for I knew what the outcome must be according to medical opinion.
I said to my relatives with whom I was staying, that I had tried everything, and I could see no prospect but just to linger along for a few months, and then leave my family of little children; but the reply came, that I had not tried Christian Science. I said I had no faith in it, and even if I had, my condition was too serious for any help in that line. They then began to tell me what it was, what it had done for them, and what it was doing for the whole world. I became so interested that we continued to talk Christian Science most of the afternoon, and I was healed of the stomach trouble during that conversation, so that I ate that night everything of which the family partook, with no distress whatever. I slept soundly all night for the first time in two years. Since then I have always eaten of all kinds of food, at any time, with no bad results.
I took a copy of Science and Health home with me, reading and studying as I had never studied anything before. I had Christian Science treatment and the healing began at once, the terrible pains in the hip and the discharges lessening day by day. In one month I was free from pain. In thirteen months every trace of the disease had disappeared, and the crutches were thrown away. For nearly five years I have taken no medicine, and have had many wonderful demonstrations of healing in my family. It has helped us in every way. I am very grateful for having been so tenderly helped from sense to Soul,—grateful to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for showing us how to live. I praise God every hour of my life for all He has done for me and mine.
