Monday, Jan. 27, 1908, an unknown and unnamed disease made its first appearance upon me in the form of pain in my knee. At that time I was employed in one of the large department stores in Denver. The pain became so severe I was compelled to leave my work in the afternoon of that day and start for home, which was eleven blocks away. I reached home with great difficulty, and as I grew rapidly worse a doctor was called and my knee was bandaged; but no relief came. My knee and leg turned black. and finally this discoloration, which was seemingly beneath the surface, spread over my whole body, a condition, the doctors asserted, that existed all through my body, and was caused by hemorrhages. My forehead and face turned black, and my body became greatly inflamed and much swollen.
On the fifth day I was removed from my home to a hospital, and the physician who attended me, never having seen such a disease, called in many doctors in consultation. One from New York city, who was in Denver at the time, examined me, and I should say, speaking conservatively, that upward of twenty doctors visited and examined me. They seemingly all agreed that they had never seen such a disease and could find no record of such a case. Two days after I was taken to the hospital, the doctors informed my wife there was no chance for me to recover; that I was then rapidly passing away, and would be gone by two o'clock.
At half-past one of that day my wife telephoned for Christian Science treatment. Absent treatment was immediately given, and within a half hour I gained strength and began to speak, although before this I had been unable to. From that hour I gained day by day, until March 2, and just one month later I returned" to work. I had been at the hospital but two weeks when I was moved home. The blackness disappeared from my face and body, and I have been well ever since. I am thankful to God for the Christpower that healed me, and to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, through whom this healing truth has been revealed to our age.— Denver, Col.
