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[Original testimony in French]

My mother has often told me that...

From the September 1925 issue of The Christian Science Journal


My mother has often told me that from babyhood I was so frail and weak that when she had to be away from me she was always fearful of no longer finding me alive upon her return. However, I grew up, but had to spend much time in the mountains in order to strengthen myself. For a time my physical condition grew stronger, but a stomach trouble developed. Several physicians who tried to relieve me were consulted. I was always tired, often ill-humored. The Bible was no help to me; I did not understand God, and wandered about—tossed from one human belief to another. However, I married and was blessed with a very patient and good husband.

After the birth of my first child, I continually suffered from a stomach trouble; nevertheless, by order of the physician I nursed the baby. Then a great weariness took hold of me, and another specialist whom I consulted prescribed a long stay in the mountains, because, he said, I had weak lungs. For years I followed diet after diet, cure upon cure, with inoculations of tuberculin, but obtained no lasting benefit. Then I tried teas of an herbalist and home remedies. The physician having told me that there was nothing more to attempt outside of an operation, I went to see the surgeon. He discovered a floating kidney, but assured me that after an operation on the stomach all would go well. After thinking this over three days, I entered the clinic. I remained there three weeks, but at the end of that time I was so thin and weak I had to be carried from the carriage to the floor where I lived.

Nevertheless, I patiently waited for my freedom from all my ills; but what the surgeon had assured me of did not take place. Another renowned physician was called, and declared that the operation had been very successful but that new ulcers had formed. I then lost all courage, allowing myself to break down completely. Later, a friend persuaded me to try to be healed by Christian Science. I had never heard it spoken of, and refused; but, the illness growing worse, my friend encouraged me again to find some one who would be able to explain Christian Science, for all she could do herself was to repeat what she had heard. I went, and the practitioner received me with a great deal of kindness. She gave me some valuable information, advised me to read the Christian Science literature and to ask help from a practitioner if I accepted Christian Science.

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