Testimonies of Healing

I wish to add my testimony to the efficacy of Christian Science treatment. As you know, I experienced a compound fracture of the left ankle on August 1, 1900.

I have been released from sufferings that tortured me for twenty-five years, and of later years the attacks became more frequent of the much dreaded disease, rheumatism. I suffered from about every phase of the disease, and physicians pronounced the case chronic.

Eleven years ago last month Science and Health was brought to me. At that time I was a total wreck physically and mentally.

I have long felt a desire to express my gratitude for and appreciation of Christian Science; but because I had no particularly startling demonstrations to relate, I remained silent. However, being out to-day with some ladies who are not Scientists, I saw and heard such expressions of weariness and fatigue over a few hours spent in the art galleries, that I returned to my home rejoicing in my understanding of Science, and prepared to study the Sunday lesson.

The Truth was first mentioned several years ago by an aunt interested in Science. There were no physical plagues to be rid of, only an array of vices and ambitions which ensnare the worldly minded, with an aversion for anything of a religious tendency.

With heartfelt gratitude I desire to make known to the world my liberation from one of the most relentless foes to mankind, locomotor ataxia. I had been slowly but surely growing worse and consequently more despondent and discouraged, when I heard of a neighbor who was being healed of paralysis by Christian Science.

It was with a homesick heart and pain-racked body, and after the doctor and medicine had failed to relieve, that I was led to inquire into Christian Science. I plainly told the Scientist that I wanted nothing to do with it if it was not in accord with the Bible.

As you know, after leaving Chattanooga in February, 1900, we were under small-pox quarantine for sixty days. Three of us escaped entirely; one had a slight attack which was conquered in three days; only the father of the family going through with the full claim in regard to that dread disease.

After reading the testimonial of healing of eczema on page 578 of the December Journal, I felt that I had not done my duty to Christian Science, as I had failed to acknowledge my healing of that disease, having not even told of it at our testimonial meetings here. Eczema is hereditary in our family, and I had suffered more or less from it all my life, and at the time when I first heard of Christian Science I had two small spots on my face due to that disease.

On the 28th of last November I had nineteen teeth pulled without any pain, and having only a beautiful sense of God's loving presence. The day before, I went to see a dear Christian Science friend; I told her what was before me, and also that the only thing I feared was that I might faint.