I Desire to testify to the power of Truth as demonstrated in my healing after all human aid had failed to help me, and my case had been pronounced hopeless. In the year 1912 while at work in the woods I was suddenly taken ill, the trouble appearing to be in the stomach, and a neighbor was obliged to take me home in a hayrack. During the following night I arose from my bed and attempted to walk, but found myself unable to do so, and fell helpless to the floor. I had entirely lost the use of my legs and could not even move my toes; in fact, my legs seemed to be paralyzed. Two physicians, in consultation, agreed that my condition was hopeless and told me that I would never be able to walk again. ''Wasting of the muscles," they called the trouble.
None but those who have had a similar experience can understand the mental agony experienced. Accepting the doctors' decision as final, I believed myself doomed to months and perhaps years of helplessness, and worse still was the thought of being a continual burden to those I love best. For nine months I lay in this condition, hopeless and helpless. At length an acquaintance spoke to me of Christian Science and brought a practitioner to talk with me; but the subject was new to me, and I treated it somewhat indifferently. A short time afterwards my wife's sister visited us and urged me to try Christian Science. Her talk inspired me with the only real hope I had had since this terrible affliction came upon me, and after some consideration I consented to have her ask a relative who is a practitioner to take my case. From that time my condition began to improve. I procured a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy and commenced to study and absorb the great truths taught therein. As thought became spiritualized, physical healing followed as naturally as day follows night.
Nearly seven years have passed since I was healed and they have been the happiest years of my life. I have been able to do all kinds of necessary work, have walked a mile to the woods, felled trees, and manufactured my firewood each year, planted and cultivated sufficient crops for our use, and am supremely happy in the knowledge that God is my strength and my life.— Dry Mills, Maine.
