Testimonies of Healing

The physical healing in my immediate family has been very wonderful, but far more marvelous is the spiritual regeneration. During my childhood I attended the Congregational Church with my parents, who were members of that denomination.

In November, 1895, while one of our girls, then ten years of age, was very ill, as the doctors said, of consumption of the lungs, my wife, then in the best of health and weighing one hundred and eighty-six pounds, was suddenly stricken down with pleuro-pneumonia. For seven months she was under the doctor's care, having every attention money could provide.

As so many persons are interested in knowing more of the scope of Christian Science treatment in its relation to cases of accident, which usually come under surgical treatment in the hands of physicians, I should like to give the readers of the Journal a carefully prepared statement of a very interesting case of healing which was brought out in this city about two years ago. I should like to say for the information of those who know only a little about the Christian Science method of treatment, that Truth is the most wonderful educator and develops the mental faculties in ways that are simply wonderful, and teaches the practitioner to observe more closely than all others the workings of the human mind and the effects of thought upon the body.

I Wish to tell how I became interested in Christian Science. I married a Scientist and the first Sunday after we were married we got to talking on religion, and she tried to tell me something of Science.

Last summer I was taken with a bad case of sore eyes, I was confined to a dark room for three days. A neighbor coming in remarked, "I am sorry for you; the people in this country do not get over such a case of sore eyes in less than three months.

One morning, several years ago, I noticed a black and blue spot on my forehead, but paid no attention to it, thinking I had hurt it in some way during the night; but the spots spread very rapidly, and before I aware of it, they had entirely covered my body. I was very sensitive to the least touch, and it was almost impossible for me to move even my hands.

In gratitude for the many blessings which have come to me through a little understanding of Christian Science, I would like to bear witness to one or two of the "signs following," which prove that it is the power of God with us, the fulfilment of Christ's promise. Since I was a child, I have, every winter, suffered from terrible colds which confined me to the house from one to two weeks, and to my bed from three to five days.

Last September I had an attack of typhoid fever. Many of my friends who depended on material remedies were in bondage for weeks; but I depended on God as the one and only Great Physician, and I knew He was able to deliver me from every ill that flesh was heir to, and through the earnest and honest work of a Scientist, I was able to go to work in a week, although I continued treatment a week longer.

I should like to tell what a wonder Christian Science has wrought in me. I had been a sufferer with rheumatism for five years, had tried everything I could hear of, electric batteries, belts, and liniments, hot and cold, of every name and nature, besides having employed several doctors.

When I became a Christian Scientist, sixteen years ago, I had worn glasses for six years on account of failing sight from age, and I continued to wear them till about three years ago. Although in the mean time I had made many good healings of imperfect sight, I was always so busy, had so much writing, etc.