It is with deepest gratitude that I send this testimony to the Journal, with the hope that it may be of help to some one. About five years ago I was operated on for an internal malignant growth, and the doctor told me that it would not return. It relieved me to have him tell me this, but I suffered on for nine months more, and the wound did not heal, as the growth was giving me more trouble. The doctor told my children that there was no hope for me, that I was a hopeless invalid.
A kind Christian Scientist then called to see me and said, "Why not try Christian Science?" She told me she had been healed of a malignant growth when she was left alone in the world with five little children to care for, and her doctor had told her there was no hope for her. She was advised to try Christian Science, and she did, with the result that she was permanently healed, and her children are now grown to manhood and womanhood, This set me thinking; still, I did not try Christian Science, but put it off with doubts, as I had always heard it scoffed at. I was raised in a Christian church and all my people were much opposed to Christian Science; but the more I thought about it the more I wanted to try it.
At last a Jewish woman, who had been healed of a malignant growth such as I had, came and wanted me to go to the practitioner who had treated her, so I went. To my joy I was healed in one treatment. Is not this beautiful? I had paid out nearly all I had of this world's goods for doctors, hospitals, nurses, and drug bills, but after my healing I was given work and have been able to do it ever since. It has been very hard work, too, such as cooking in hotels, etc., yet I have never had a return of the disease. I have never enjoyed life as I do now.
