Testimonies of Healing
I want to express my gratitude for a demonstration I had a few days ago in overcoming a severe burn. My daughter's little boy, thirteen months old, in passing along before the open grate, fell with one hand right into the fire.
Our little boy four years old was placed under Christian Science treatment for what materia medica would probably pronounce catarrhal fever. He cared for no food but milk, would leave his play to lie down and sleep a great deal of the time.
It is more than ten years since I first heard of Christian Science, and during that time stubborn prejudices have slowly disappeared, mistakes have been corrected, doubts have been removed and in their place is the consciousness of God's unerring wisdom and love, and the knowledge that He is the Creator of all that is right and real and of nothing that can hurt His children. Christian Science lessens the fear of responsibility by showing that God is absolutely just and that all He requires is that we should do our duty—do to our brother as we would he should do to us—and obey the voice of Truth, which becomes clearer and louder as we practise obedience to it.
One year ago last spring I realized something must be done for my eyes. They had caused me much pain during the previous year.
I Was asked by a friend to go and see Mr. I—, and to speak to him about Christian Science, with a view to placing his wife under treatment.
Filled with love and gratitude for the blessings received through this beautiful Truth, I undertake to write these few lines for our Journal, knowing they will be the help to some dear reader, that the different testimonies have been to me. A few weeks ago I had a bad fall, and at first felt unable to get up, but with the little understanding I had of this Truth I declared the allness of God, and realized that God's perfect child could not be hurt.
For a long time I have thought I would like to testify to the great benefit that Christian Science has been to me and my family. The first and greatest demonstration we have had was the healing of my daughter two years ago, who had had bladder trouble from birth, which was not helped after having four doctors who did all they could; one doctor telling me that if she was not cured soon, it would be serious.
About two years ago I first heard of Christian Science through a lecture delivered in Jacksonville, Fla. , where I had gone to seek health and strength.
About four years ago I entered a Christian Science Church for the first time to attend a Sunday morning service. I had just begun the study of this beautiful religion, and had only a very slight knowledge of it, but knew that it was the whole Truth and I had an earnest desire to learn more of it.
Thirteen years ago Christian Science found me a helpless invalid, having been in bed most of the time for three years and a half. Two severe operations were failures, and every remedy known to humanity had been tried.