Testimonies of Healing

While I am not a member of the Christian Science Church, I am very much in earnest when I say that it has done much for me. I became interested in Christian Science about sixteen months ago.

About five years ago Christian Science came into my home. My wife, who had been an invalid for many years under a complication of claims, generally termed nervous prostration, was healed after a few treatments.

I would like to tell the Journal of the healing of my grandmother, a woman over eighty-five years of age. She had been in failing health for many months, not being able to eat solid food except toast or rice, and suffering great distress nearly all the time.

It is nearly three years since I first heard of Christian Science, having watched impatiently for years for more enlightenment, for I realized more and more as life advanced, that Christ's message was misunderstood. I came from a very devout family of the Lutheran faith, and had studied the Bible since my early childhood.

When my little babe was three weeks old, she had sore eyes. They were like running sores, she could not open them herself at all.

As I receive a great benefit from reading our Journals and Sentinels, I desire to give my testimony, as to what Christian Science can do for one who has the cigarette habit. Three years and a half ago I was smoking from twenty to thirty cigarettes a day.

I wish to tell of a demonstration which I had on the sixth of October. I was struck by an electric car as I attempted to cross the street and was thrown right underneath the car.

In December, 1890, two prominent Sioux City doctors told me I had a cystic tumor, and that by measurement they thought it would weigh twenty or twenty-five pounds. By February 1 it was so far developed that I was told that unless I was operated on immediately there was no help for me, so all arrangements were made to go to Chicago to the Hahnemann Hospital.

Dear Journal: —Yesterday, at an hour of need, you were placed in my hands. Let me say that you came as an angel messenger, and I wish to thank you for the comfort and help received after perusing your pages for a little while.

Since my first attendance at a Christian Science Church, I have not missed a Sunday service and, with two or three exceptions, I have been present each Wednesday evening. My first experience of physical healing was from the grip.