Testimonies of Healing
I am glad to tell how I was healed. Beliefs of consumption, dyspepsia, neuralgia, piles, tobacco, and bad language held me in bondage for many years.
Editor Christian Science Journal : When I came to Terre Haute in October last, I was pronounced by every one who saw me, in the last stages of consumption. I could not rest day or night without something in the way of medicine.
The following extract from a letter addressed to a Scientist, explains itself. Concerning the request in it for the phraseology used in the treatment of disease, our Teacher's instructions are express against everything that savors of formulae.
Editor Journal :—With a sense of the great practical good resulting from the plan of "Healing and Reports" of Cases in the February Journal, some experiences are here presented. Mind-cure teaching and its healing had, in this part of California, convinced the public that it was neither scientific nor Christian before true Science was taught or practiced.
In the late primary class at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, a student asked, "Why do you approve of surgery?" Our Teacher replied: "Why do I approve of surgery? I did not know that I did, except as a choice of evils. If my students cannot through the power of Mind put into juxtaposition a broken bone, then they must do the next best thing.
Horton, Brown Co. , Kan.
Arlington, Mass. — For seven years I suffered with an unknown disease of the eye, and was obliged to wear glasses.
New York, Feb. 23, 1889.
Shannon, Ill. Dear Journal:— I feel it my duty, as well as a privilege, to tell to the world the wonderful work done for me by Christian Science in healing me so miraculously.