Christian Science
Testimony
RESTORED TO PERFECT
HEALTH
When
Christian Science first came to my notice I was called an
old man. The dream of old age and its attendant ills was
fast hedging me in, so it seemed. All my life I had been
seeking for the truth, but only broken glimpses of happiness
came to me prior to my first healing in Christian Science
over three years ago. I am a veteran of the Civil War, and
while in the service sustained injuries which culminated in
a severe rupture. I was a slave to a support which had to be
worn constantly during the day. To add to my misery came the
verdict of the doctors that I was suffering from Bright's
disease. All of this is as a terrible nightmare now, but my
great need brought me into Christian Science. When this
teaching came into my life, I was bereft of all hope of
recovering my former vitality. I suddenly awoke to find
myself improving under Christian Science treatment, instead
of growing weaker as had been predicted by materia
medica. Can you imagine the joy of one who, apparently
lost in the mesmerism of disease and discouragement, is
suddenly restored again to perfect health? I was a new man!
The truss was thrown away, and the kidney trouble which had
caused years of excruciating pain left me as the belief
which produced it was destroyed.
I
am no longer in the evening of life, for I have awakened to
the truer sense of man as idea, and I find myself in the
morning of a new era altogether beautiful, wherein dwell
happiness, peace, and thanksgiving. I have come to see that
it is truly "the spirit that quickeneth," that the beliefs I
had entertained about man were creations of fancy; and the
slight understanding of Christian Science which I have, has
melted them all away so that I am as a little child learning
a bit each day from our textbook, "Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and all the wealth of
printed material to which the student has access. How
grateful we should be to Mrs. Eddy for her work in the
interest of all mankind! I for one rejoice with the
psalmist, but I have revised his song slightly and now make
it read, Once I was old, but now I am young. How grateful I
am for the dawn of genuine happiness!
Amos W.
Melugin
Centerville, Iowa
"Testimonies of
Healing"
Christian Science Sentinel, March 22,
1919
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