Testimonies of Healing

I suffered for over twelve years from severe and chronic neuralgia, accompanied by the most painful headaches. These occurred about every two weeks during the twelve years; they were so terrible that I was compelled to go to bed,—and, to allay the pain, physicians would recommend my taking drugs.

In the spring of 1898 a lady told me how she had been helped by Christian Science, and through her testimony, I was led into Science. I was very ill at the time, the result of an accident which occurred years before, having been thrown from a horse, and receiving internal injuries, from which the doctor said I would suffer all my life.

In the fall of 1896 a Christian Science Journal was handed me by a lady member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, but after reading it I laid it aside and thought no more of it, and had forgotten it until the other day when I found the Journal among some old papers, and I now prize it very highly. About a year ago my wife purchased "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G.

During the past few years I have been more or less in ill health, my chief trouble being chronic constipation, which finally terminated in a complication of female disorders from which I suffered to such an extent that I was persuaded early in November of last year to enter a sanitarium in Fresno, where, after an examination I was told that an operation was necessary in order to save my life. Consequently I was put under the influence of chloroform for two hours, an incision was made in the abdomen and one of the organs was removed, also a tumor of some kind.

Recently I was called to see my nine-year-old grand-daughter who was suffering from typhoid fever. I got there on Wednesday, the ninth day of her illness.

I went to the dentist to have my first double tooth taken out because a new tooth was coming. The tooth was very solid and I couldn't move it, but the dentist said it ought to come out, and asked mamma if he should give me something so that I should not feel the pain; but I said no, and I told him I had no fear.

Several years ago, before I knew anything about Christian Science, I was twice afflicted with paralysis of the face and was under medical treatment, including electricity, for several months each time. About a year ago I was again stricken in the same way, and in place of looking to materia medica for my healing I put myself under Christian Science treatment and at the end of four days I was completely healed,—not a trace left to tell the tale.

Christian Science has healed me of many ills and has enabled me to help others in marvelous ways. One woman, who had been in bed five years with consumption and spinal disease, who could not sit up or use her lower limbs and had been lifted on a sheet for months, who could not speak above a whisper, was healed in a short time so that she sat up and walked all over the house and sang.

From earliest childhood I was a sufferer from kidney troubles, which a few months ago began to manifest itself in a most malignant form, rapidly developing into Bright's disease. Materia medica seemed to give no relief, and I was about to yield to what I believed to be the inevitable, when persuaded by a friend to try Christian Science.

About five and a half years ago, I turned to Christian Science for physical help, and not in vain. I was a victim of throat and lung trouble, also nervousness and insomnia, brought on by overwork and hard study.