Testimonies of Healing

Four years ago, I was in a home where a lady called who had with her a bright, healthy child of about two years, and in the course of conversation the story was related of her child, who had been in a very low condition, owing to indigestion. Each day as the father went out to work, he would ask them to be sure to send for him, should any change come.

When I was in Sao Paulo in Brazil in 1892, I dislocated my knee. I was laid up in consequence for about six weeks, but really I should have remained quiet somewhat longer.

I am studying Christian Science but am not a Christian Scientist, though I hope to be one some day. I began the study through curiosity, prompted by the healing of my little daughter.

Last summer a little boy seven years old had his finger torn off almost to the first joint. At first he did not notice it; but in a few minutes he cried because of fright, those around were manifesting such fear.

I have read many demonstrations by young people and would like to add mine. Last fall, about a mile from home, I tried to "hop" a two-horse wagon loaded with iron fence.

I had never heard anything good of Christian Science until eighteen months ago, when a friend from Germany who had been healed visited me, and even then I was very much against it, thinking she had been healed only because it was her nerves from which she suffered. About four months later I began to look into Christian Science, and was persuaded to have absent treatment.

Truly may it be said, the darkest hour just precedes the dawn, for indeed, I had despaired of ever being healed of that so-called incurable disease, asthma. My physician had prescribed a change of climate, and I had just returned from a three months' stay in Canada where I had expected to have my health entirely restored, but to my dismay I came home very little improved.

Failing to find physical ease after ten years' persistent adherence to the laws of materia medica, hygiene, and physiology, I turned to Christian Science. After reading the text-book, Science and Health, I found it was not a physical system out of order, but a mental system in dis-order; that there was no good in the thought-material I had been building with.

I have to acknowledge the very rapid healing by Christian Science of a very badly cut and injured hand, also the escape without a scratch from an accident where the on-lookers thought the person would surely be killed. I ascribe this complete deliverance entirely to the fact that we had been obeying the Scriptural commandment to "Watch.

Several years ago while in Chicago I first heard of Christian Science. I had been a great sufferer and almost an invalid for many years.