The Washington herald., 1908-02-09

/ her ailments bur not To me- When she
told me that she was healed / had not
/ the slightest idea what she meant, but i
/ did not tell her so. She went on then
and told me about what had been her
la.lment and she said. Il am well. / nave
/ been talking TO them all day about my
healing and showing them that j couid
1 walk and am we'll. That was an OF
ganic disease. She had another organic
disease. which was heart disease. Inc
| doctors told her she was liable 70 die
any time from heart failure. was
driven out of Washington tWenty-slX
| years ago to die Of heart disease by Two
I of the best doctors in this city. one has
gone on. the other Is here yet / was told
1 10 get out on account OF heart disease
] would not have run across the street
/ 10 have caught a street car for al the
money you could have piled up, because
] would have expected 10 nave drOppe4
| dead with heart disease. This system OF
healing cured me. made me perfect. We
did not ask doctors whether / might De
/ healed, because they would not have given
/ us the permission. IL was an organic dis-
ease, and l was ruled out under the rule.
Tested Christian Science.
Ny wife was taken with as bad a case
I Of diphtheria as I ever saw, and had
/ had experience with it long before / ever
heard Of Christian Science, and knew per
/ fectly well what she had. l had never
/ treated a case in my life Of any serious
ness and / was afraid TO trust my own
/ self I wChe up in the morning about
4.30 perhaps. and / heard the little
woman moaning in her room. I went in
to her and found she was out or her
mind. her face was black with a hot
/ fever; one OF the worst diphtherla cases
I ever heard Of-the worst ] ever saw. /
made up my mind that 7 would give
/ Christian Science just one hOur-not an
other minute-tO neal her and then call
doctor If she was not healed. j got IN
contact with one Of the best healers /
I knew IN this town, told her the cOndI-
I tiOng and she commenced treating imme-
diately. ! brought her home with me.
/ The healer sat down and treated for one
hour. / heard talking; 1t woke me up. j
said. How Is your patentE she said
Mrs Sabin is we'll. l went over 70 her
/ bed and looked at her. Her face was
white, the swelling had gone out the
black fever was gone, but there were two
great big knots yet in the SIDE or the
/ throat. But the disease was killed. TWO
hours from that time Mrs Sabln sat up
and ate her breakfast During that day
she had occasion to move bird from one
cage 10 another, and mad occasion 70 90
out through the rain and get another
cage from WOodshed. Ihe ram or damp
did not hurt her. So there was a case
/ the doctors say we can't heal with
Science. I am telling of these cases be
cause the diseases are things that can De
/ seen.
+ young man had erysipelas; his left
eye was sWelled and closed. ] had lost
my faith in medicine so / weuld not use
/ IL because Coos healing was so much
better and / left him with my wife Tor
l two or three days ] made up my mind
I that ] would leave the office early that
day and 90 home and doctor the boy. 1T
I he would not take God healing l would
give him the medicine. he could not stay
/ there in danger any longer / knew per
fectiy well how 10 heal it by medicine
/ Said ]. speaking 10 him, II was my own
/ son. Will why can't you take THIS Goa
/ Healingt He said, i am perfectly VIII
( ing to take it," / kneeled down by the
/ side Of his bed. / asked God in words
about these, Father, please heal my
/ boy, I do not know how to ask. OF what
( TO ask. only / know you can heal him,
and You Will. because I ask il. in the
name Of Jesus Christ, which l do now
/ The witness of the Spirit came to me and
! ] knew he was healed. l told him, Iou
/ do not have 20 lie here In bed unless you
want TO, you are we'll / went up 10
my room and lay down on q lounge and
went 10 sleep. In an hour time OF
thereaboUts, ] heard somebody IN the
/ bathroom ! went down TO see If II was
| him, sure enough Il was him and he
had a blanket around him. and was
washing himself What are you doing
WHIP II am washing this grease OF
/ that they have on me- THAT Is right
/ The grease is no good, wash IL on He
/ sat up and played with his baby boy
/ until dinner time sat down 20 the table
/ and ate, with one eye shut yet. lie sat
/ up that night till \ or o'clock, his usual
\ bed time, and went 10 bed. The next
I morning when he woke Up-tnat was
/ Sunday mOrnIng-eVery DIT or the swell
ing had gone. except here and there a
/ little blotch Of red. On Monday he went
/ - work for the government IN the Navy
/ Department. That was God healing, pure
/ and simple, just a plain asking God Tor a
/ plain fact The answer came direct from
! God and We had no doctors permission.
: a young man came to my house one
! time TO see something about his mother.
Just before he went away ! looked al
him. had hardly noticed him before, and
/ / said. You are under the influence OF
+ liquor young man." He said, II know
/ / am" I asked him if he would read a
. book if ] would give him one. He stud
/ led a little while. he did not know Wheth-
/ er 10 promise OF not. said he, Yes, sir.
( I will. ] said. Mind you 1 am giving
you this book on your honor, / have no
! books 10 throw away. but II yOu are
/ telling me the truth. / can rely on your
/ manhood. here is your book He took
I il. he took II home, be atterward told me
/ of his experience. Il remained on the
I shelf for a few DAYS, until this promise
/ he made TO me came up 10 him. lie had
/ TO keep mis- word, he started in 10 read
ChriStOi0gy. became endmOTed with d..
J the truth captured him, and be did not
stop reading that book until he digested
/ It and every other book that had writ
ten. and he became stalwart Scientist
and a good healer Of the sick. That man
I IS " s. Whitman. That was case
/ the doctors had nothing 20 do with,
perfect regeneration. He was cured Of
/ the alcohol habit and Is now blessing
/ to society
Medicine Had Failed Him.
| Ny own body was healed from all kinds
/ of ailments, almost up into perfect, stall
wart health. all by God healing Medi-
cine had utterly failed all the best ply
/ sicians could do did no good
! We are told that all healing is done by
suggestion. Suggestion is but one step
/ advanced. If it is an advance. from what
/ is called hypnotism Mind you, I do not
say that hypnOtism is all wrong. if il
/ is properly used. I think the power by
which the prophet gave to Gehaza the
/ leprosy. that taken from Naaman, may
/ have been a good power, II properly
/ used: but il does not strike me so II
may be that when Ananias and Sap
phiTd, his wife, We're stricken dead hy
! Peter, II was the exercise Of q Cody
power. but it does not strike me so l
/ believe God Almighty love is the only
/ power that should ever be used. know
that for years people have been trying
| TO hound my life out Of me by their
malicious, wicked thoughts l know tins
/ TO be true, threatened to take my life;
+ but I have never, sleeping or waking,
/ thrown to one of these people a vl5ra-
| ton Of anything but perfect love, God
/ Almighty love is all and in all. IL you
| find fellows upon the right hand or upon
/ the left that seek to destroy you by er-
roneous thoughts, affirm that God Al
mighty turns their hatred into love; and
| like the prophet Of old that had the ass
/ that pO7rfd talk let their CUrSing be turn
| ed into blessings. / have nothing but
perfect love for all mankind. Love is the
panaCea by which we do all; and in ev-
erything I have said here tonight l have
said it in the spirit of perfect love. But
/ the time is coming my friends; il is near
here. when some church will rise above
| the Episcopalians in their seeking for
the new birth and viii acknowledge in